Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!

I grew up in Italy, so for me, Naples pizza is the only type of pizza that there really is.

It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

I think our core fans have stayed true to us, and I want to thank them for staying with us.

I love Bruce Springsteen's writing, but I grew up on '90s hip hop, like Tribe Called Quest.

My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Plastic Beach will be the last Gorillaz album ever released. You've heard it from medirect.

I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

Share This Page