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It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.
A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much.
I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.
When you're doing a Motley Crue tribute record, you can ask anyone to do it, and they're not going to say no.
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.
Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.
Playing with light is something that is very important, especially when you want cinematography in your game.
I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
I know you feel alone, but just look up at the stars, and everything that is out there is what you really are
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.
One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
Its not that I like men sexually, just that I can admit when they are beautiful. But sexually I need a woman.
Whenever I eat a meal, I always leave the last bite on my plate. I don't know why, it's just a thing with me.
Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.
People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.
Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.
I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.
Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.
I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.
We've met so many people you'd never even suspect of being Slayer fans: suits, lawyers, and people like that.
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.
I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.
But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.
As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.