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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.
Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.
I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.
They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!
Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.
All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.
Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord
Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.
As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.
For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.
One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.
My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.
I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.
I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.
You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.
I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.
When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.
Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.
I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.
When you want some subtle emotions, you need some subtle vehicles for emotion.
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.
Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.
She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.
The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.
Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.
Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.
I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.
I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.
The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.