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How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
On Kim Kardashian: "I think she's cute. And, no, she's not too old for me. Above 40 is a little too old for me.
I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.
Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.
I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
When you're the cool guy, you don't know how to take people not liking you. I've already been there, done that.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.
The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?
The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.
I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
I now recognize that having a great company behind you can actually impact your motivation to be more creative.
You can't just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn't going to catch on.
Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.
I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.
The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.
I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.
A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
The journey to the completion of 'Year Of The Tiger' was very interesting and full of a lot of trial and error.
When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.
If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.
Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.
When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.
I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.
Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs.
The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
I have decided to tell the world that I accept my homosexuality and celebrate this gift that life has given me.
For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'
If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.