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If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.
To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew.
The only person who can save you is you: That going to be the thing that informed the rest of my life.
I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.
The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.
I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.
Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
We should realize there are so many things that us together rather than the things that keep us apart.
If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them.
Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'
In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that's because I do something. Big difference.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.
The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.
We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that.
Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
I head a Salt-n-Pepa song one time, where they named every rapper in New York. And they didn't name us!
I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.
I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens
It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.