I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that Ive always wanted to make since I was a kid.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

Enya was a huge deal for me. That kind of woman vocals and how wide those productions were.

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

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