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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison].
I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.
I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.
I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.
I just can't bring myself to see Sabbath without Bill Ward, because he was such an integral part of that band.
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.
What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.
My heart is like an open highway...people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know
I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.
I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.
Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that.
I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.
Jack has two boys, and when they grow up they're gonna wanna be like the D. I've already got the name: Mini D.
It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.
In a perfect world, in my opinion, 'they,' 'them,' and 'theirs' would be the pronouns that everyone would use.
I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.
The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.
Growing up, I was always blown away by 'Star Trek' and 'Barbarella' and 'Logan's Run.' The retro sci-fi thing.
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.
Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.