Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

I want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.

Every once in a while we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

There is no darkness in this place that we're bound Love is the only thing that matters

I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

Technology is not going to be perceived by different classes of people in the same way.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

I've been a workaholic for many years, but at the same time, I do it because I love it.

In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

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