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I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.
I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.
If there's ever a live record that deserved to be mixed in surround sound, it's 'Frampton Comes Alive.'
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.
I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.
Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.
I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.
This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your mark—to make a difference.
I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did.
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.
I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That's where I belong.
I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it.
I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.
When I listen to the first songs I wrote in Rammstein, I have to smile because it was so silly at time.
I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Rock saved me. You can break drums and scream out loud - if you do that in the street you get arrested.
My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?
When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live.
I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
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.
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name