In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

I woke up one day, and for some reason all the hate and anger was gone.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.

She don't say a word, and she won't say a word until you kiss the girl.

People wonder why I go out with models with nothing between their heads

It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

I always like to push the extremes of what anybody thinks St. Lucia is.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Educated: no. Stupid: yes. And when I say "stupid," I mean stupid fresh.

The two biggest influences of the '70s were Don Cornelius and Bruce Lee.

Take what you're good at and give to the cause that you care most about.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

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