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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.
I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.
I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back
I'm for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.
Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.
It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.
She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop.
You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.
Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan
I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.
I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.
I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.
I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.
It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.
The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.
When I experienced racism here in my own country, I was not prepared for it. I had never heard the word racism.
Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.
I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.
A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.
One of the first 45s I ever bought was the Stooges' 'I Got a Right.' Probably one of my favorite singles, ever.
I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.
I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright
I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.