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The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.
Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.
I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.
Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.
I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.
CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea
Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.
By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it
I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.
'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.
It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.
Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.
One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.
I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.
Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.
After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.
I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.
Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.