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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.
That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.
There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.
I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.
I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.
Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.
...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.
Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.
To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.
I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders.
Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.
You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live
Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.
I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?
It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.
Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.
Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism.
I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.