I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

Everybody wants to have a good time, especially at a concert. That's why everybody goes.

I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

It's very important that we learn how to communicate... and learn to respect each other.

Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

I love to go home to my kids. I don't have that lull in my life when I didn't have them.

I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.

I started playing in punk-rock bands and touring when I was 15, so I missed high school.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.

It was fun trying to use a few different voices for the vocal track on 'Country Heroes.'

I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

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