I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?

Proper Sabbath is Sabbath with Bill Ward. I'm sorry, it just is.

The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'

I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old.

Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

I like to fool myself into thinking that whatever happens is OK.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

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