The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.

I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Once Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are not cool on country radio, it's time for a new format.

In the mid- to late '70s, there was no one better than ABBA at writing and producing great pop.

I am a great believer that you should record more than you need and then use the absolute best.

Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

Just because I can't change everything, doesn't mean I shouldn't try to change anything at all.

I'm good at fitting in, and I think I'm fairly perceptive about moods and psychic environments.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.

I almost shouldnt be in Limp Bizkit, its like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed.

I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all.

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