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I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.
I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.
As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.
The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.
I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.
I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.
The biggest production show I went to with my step-dad and my mom was Adam Ant when I was probably eleven.
It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.
I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.
I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.
I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.
Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.
There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.
I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.
I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.
Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
It's kind of weird to think about our fan base now, where our hard-core fans have kids, families and jobs.
I might have some difficult questions, but I know God is still good and he has been merciful and gracious.
It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.
Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.
With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.
We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.
I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.
Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.
Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.
Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.
My mom means a lot to me. My mom gave up everything. She moved with me and believed in me. She is awesome.
I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.
It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.
I hang out with a lot of older people, so I've matured a little bit, but I do still have my immature side.
I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.