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Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.
I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.
It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.
I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference
I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.
The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.
A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.
I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.
You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.
I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'
I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.
Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.
I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.
I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.
If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.
If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.
I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.
To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.
Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.
If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.
I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m
I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.
Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.
If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.
I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.