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I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.
That's going to be the biggest problem, to make people feel like it's cool for them to like my music.
I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.
I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.
My least favorite thing about being in a band is photo shoots and video shoots. I like writing songs.
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
That's literally been a longtime dream of mine: to create a comic and an accompanying concept record.
I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.
You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.
The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life
I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
As far as I remember, I don't have any warrants out for my arrest anymore. I can travel without fear.
I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.
I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.
I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.
I'm active - I like playing football, but I'm not very good. I like running, but I'm not really fast.
I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.
Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.
I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.
You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.
It's quite an easy way to write a concept album about love. Everything boils down to love in the end.
Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.
I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.
Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.
I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.
I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.
Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.
When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.