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I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
I fell in love with these two passions that I made into careers, and I've never had to give one up.
If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly
I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
I just want to keep living the dream. So I'm telling you, my friend, help me keep living the dream.
I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.
Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.
I've been listening to a lot of dance, hip-hop, drum-and-bass, reggae, R&B - very rhythmical music.
When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.
NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's.
Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that's my way of officially being me.
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.
I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.
We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.
I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.
You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.
May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.
Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.