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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.
I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it.
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.
Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.
She's soft and she's gentle and sweet as can be, and if Sharmon needs squeezin', then leave it to me.
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.
I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.
I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.
As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.
The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.
You have to get to the next level, or you're gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.
I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.
I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.
One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.
Music absolutely played a massive role in bridging many gaps in the racial divides I would encounter.
I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.
He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable.
Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.
Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that important to me? No. Is it something I've aspired towards? No.
It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.