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I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.
You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.
Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.
I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.
I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.
I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it
It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.
I've been playing music professionally, full time since 1980 when I graduated college at the age of 22.
It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.
Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?
There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.
'Heavy Rain' was really close to a dark thriller, like 'Se7en.' 'Beyond' is different in terms of tone.
CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.
People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.
Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.
Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'
For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people
There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do
Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.
I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!
Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.