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Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.
I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.
There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short.
I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!
[Jack Johnson]gave me my whole start in music, which was the coolest thing ever.
My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.
I've never been one to just play safe music and think that's all there is to it.
We may stop lovin' to watch Bugs Bunny, but he can't take the place of my honey.
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name
I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.
I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.
My father was responsible for me starting in music. He's always stood behind me.
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.
Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.
You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.
I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.
Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.
If there is a God, I want to see Him, not only His energy or His light, but Him.
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!
You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.
When you go, would you ever turn to say, "I don't love you like I did yesterday.
I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.
I'm just gonna keep doing what I do, and hopefully not make too many people mad.
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.
There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.
For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.
I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.
I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.
I was excited about opening for Vanilla Fudge because I was a big fan of theirs.
Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.
She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili.
Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.
You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.