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'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.
Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.
You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.
Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.
I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.
So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.
The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.
Haters scream, trying to bring me down, but my Beliebers can scream louder than that and I am proud of that.
We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.
You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.
Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.
I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female.
I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.
If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.
Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.
Most people know we're kind of one of the only bands around right now that will admit that we're Republican.
We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.
Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.
Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.
If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hydration.
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.
A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.
For some reason, my voice doesn't age. I can still hit those high harmonies just like I did back in the day.
A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.
I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.