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I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly.
Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
No one really knows exactly what happens when we think, Therefore we can never really ever know anything...
It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.
Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.
Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass until he can't come anymore.
I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.
I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.
The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.
Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.
Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.
The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell.
Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.
I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.
I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.
You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.
There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.
I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.
When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.
Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
The whole thing with playing on a stage with mics and all that has always been kind of uncomfortable to me.
What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.
We’re all gifted with the opportunity to succeed. But you get further if you extend the hand of friendship.
I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.
One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.'
You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.
I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.
Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.