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You don't need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn't make you a taco.
It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
I miss touring. I miss seeing people on the road. I miss that adrenaline rush; there's nothing like it.
I haven't seen 'Magic Mike' yet, and neither has Dani. Or maybe she has seen it, and I just don't know!
We're growing and learning together, and it is important for us to stay true to the family that we are.
I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.
Manic depression in general is something that runs in my family, and it's something that I battle with.
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?
Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like.
I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.
I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.
I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played
I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.
You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.
Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.
It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.
I love playing with Slash, and the chemistry I have with the rest of the guys in his band is fantastic.
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."
The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.
There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.
It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
What puts people off metal is they think it's all nutters and blood. We don't want to be seen that way.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.