Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

I've always thrived on getting a drive from different emotional circumstances that I'm going through.

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.

If I like the music then at least some others will too, and that is all that matters in this context.

I make music, and if anyone wants to dislike it because of my logo, or lack thereof, then fine by me.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

If I had to say something, it would be 'Lighten up. Be cool.' There's just so many buffoons out there.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

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