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I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.
We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.
FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.
I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
I'm the ultimate rock 'n' roll sideman. But that doesn't mean a 'sideman' isn't vital.
You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant
I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.
The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.
In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Elvis is everywhere. Elvis is everything. Elvis is everybody. Elvis is still The King.
People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.
Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.
I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.
You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.
I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.
If you don't wash your hair, it cleans itself. That applies to the human body as well.
The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.
I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
A million tomorrows shall all pass away 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.
On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.
It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.
I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.
It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song.
I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche
When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.