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Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.
I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.
I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.
Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.
We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.
I'm always up for a riot, but now and again, you've gotta put your feet up and enjoy the sunset.
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."
I love working with film, whether it's the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.
To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.
I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.
My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.
Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.
There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.
I strongly disagree that you can't have a happy family life and a child as well as rock n' roll.
I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.
There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.
It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.
Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.
I think sober is the new black. That's the cool thing now. I'm trying to make it the cool thing.
It feels really good when you get offstage and feel like the audience gave everything they have.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.
You got your own style, now let it come through. And remember no matter what, you got to be you.
Sometimes in common relationships,i ts hard to break the Ice,so just look hot and you'll melt it
I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'
You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.
Some people know why they make music, I suppose. But we never talk about what we're doing. Ever.
To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.
My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.
'Summer Babe' is the start of Pavement front-loading their albums with the catchiest song first.
Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.
The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?
The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.