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I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.
I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.
I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.
It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
In my band, I'm the band leader. As a band leader, our job is to bring harmony to the voices we have on stage.
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
I personally believe that more and more players think that 10 hours is the right kind of play time for a game.
As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.
Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.
That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.
I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.
If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?
It's so fun to be in love... or so I've heard, The meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word...
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band.
Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.
I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.
I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.
Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.
If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.