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The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I'm not Chuck Berry or Bill Monroe. Guys like that are from outer space.
Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.
I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.
For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.
There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
Our goal is to develop our studio as a global, multifranchise company while remaining an independent studio.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses!
I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.
All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.
The point has always been to make music, it's not like I've always been running a giant money making scheme.
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
t.A.T.u. did a Russian version of 'All The Things She Said' and it was even better than the English version!
George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they're respected and they were twice as crazy as I'll ever be.
It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.
It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.
Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.
Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.
Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it.
We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.
I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.
I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.