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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light
I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.
It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.
I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.
I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.
My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'
Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.
When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.
Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.
Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.
No fake stuff. If you have a personal relationship with a female, it'll be easier and more real to do a song.
In music today, people are against females. We don't have that empowerment anymore. We don't have that voice.
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.
Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
I just do in the stadium the same thing. I scream and I become naked mentally. I give everything to our fans.
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?
That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!
I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.
Fans these days seem to almost expect a response from band-members any time they tweet or leave a comment etc.
I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.
Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I was different.