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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.
Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.
The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.
Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.
Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment.
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.
In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.
No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.
I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.
Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.
You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.
Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.
I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.
I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.
I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..!
The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.
It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how to go in.
Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.
I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
Being sociable is a sacrifice, as I see it. I really don't like to be, but it is necessary and worth it.
I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage.
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
I know so many people that I wouldn't have ever met had I not have been travelling since I was fourteen.
Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.