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I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.
Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.
If one percent of the people who take iPad or iPhone videos of concerts watch them, I'd be very surprised.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
Hey! Don't laugh at me for that cupcake thing. I enjoy cupcakes, therefore EVERYONE should enjoy cupcakes.
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
I'm definitely of the mindset of "I wouldn't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member."
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.
Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.
Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.
My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
If it's time to let go, JUST LET GO. You can't carry on through life with extra weight on your conscience.
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.
All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.
Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.
I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.
Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.
I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.
The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'