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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.
I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.
Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.
When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.
Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.
Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.
For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.
When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.
I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.
I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.
I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.
My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.
I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.
When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.
My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.
Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.
It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.
Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.
I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.
I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.