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I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.
Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.
I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.
I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.
Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.
Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.
But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.
I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.
The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.
Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.
I will never grow thick skin, so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.
If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.
We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.
My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
Stories are emotional journey where we can project ourselves emotionally in another space.
It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.
In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt
Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.
If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.