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The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.
I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.
There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.
It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.
Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.
There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist
I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they get.
Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.
I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.
I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.
I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.
They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.
Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.
There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.
Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.
I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.
We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.
No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.
I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.
Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved.
I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation.