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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
It's pretty easy for me because I have a wonderful wife. We put God first and it takes a lot of hard work.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.
Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.
I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind
You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.
One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.
Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.
I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.
Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
I have panic attacks here and there, like in the weirdest places ever, and I've learned to deal with them.
Turn off the TV, turn off the Internet, just go out, and I bet you your life will get better really quick.
I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.