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It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.
So I'm taking a stand-and I hope others will-to really live what I believe and embrace who I am in Jesus Christ.
People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
Bush, as far as I'm concerned, is a war criminal. With Trump, we have no idea. Right now it's just a freak show.
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.
I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.
The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.
There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.
I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.
People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.
It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.
My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.
What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.
I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.
There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.
I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.
And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.
A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.
I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things.
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.
It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!
Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.
My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
I bought a blimp just so I could get a bunch of wankers excited over nothing, what did you do with your weekend?
If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face