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Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.
I pretty much use the same stuff live that I use in the studio. I don't like the feel to change too much.
I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another
Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.
I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.
We want to be just like the greatest band. But I think we're just sort of both naturally humorous fellas.
And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
You don't work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day.
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.
I do think that really great music will divide people, and people will love and hate it at the same time.
'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.
I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out.
I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them
Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.
I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.
Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.
I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.
The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.
I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.
I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.
I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.
Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good.
As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.
Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.
I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.
You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it's a lot more interesting.
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.