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There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.
I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.
If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth
I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.
You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.
Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.
Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.
Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.
Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.
The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.
Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.
I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.
Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.