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Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.
I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.
My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
I don't think we've ever been in an interview where someone hasn't asked, 'How did you guys get together?'
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.
I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
After I had a kid, I value every minute of time that I have alone and I don't take it for granted anymore.
There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.
I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.
Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.
Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.
I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?
Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.
It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.
The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree
I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her.
Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.
I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.
I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.
I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.
I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.
I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.
I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.
We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.
Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.
The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
To be honest, we're really nervous right now. It's our third album, so it's gotta be our best and biggest.
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.
President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.
There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.
Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.