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Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
I have a bath. It just relaxes me. Sitting there for a bit and just breathe and go ‘ffffuuuhhh….’, you know.
I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.
I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.
My mind has never been in prison; I think all the time about what I should do on the day that I am released.
Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.
Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.
I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.
The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.