I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.

Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven.

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying maybe not a bike.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

Solomon was a musician and David was a musician, so it's a profession that I take seriously.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.

Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey

Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

I'm not the ideal pop star, not what you see on TV. I look like I could be your best friend.

I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.

There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

I do like burgers, I do eat chicken - and I'm not proud of it, but I pick my nose. We all do.

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