I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding... my hobby is winning.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

I realize now that God has been with me every step of my life - through the suffering.

I am growing and understanding more of who God is in my life and how I am to minister.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

I learned that once it's over, it's really over, and to not take anything for granted.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.

The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

To be honest, I'm more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.

You need to enjoy what you're doing in order to do something good. You can't force it.

I'm not prepared to sacrifice my being engaged in the world for just any relationship.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

Rock and roll reaches people because it's honest and doesn't shy away from the issues.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

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