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Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."
To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.
I would love to have everybody in the world love Bob Schneider. That's my goal- hundred per cent world domination!
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike
Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't overdo it.
I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.
I started, me by myself, found a great co-founder, got up to 95 people, and then it ended with me by myself again.
Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.
It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"
I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.
With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.
I made money in my 20s, became sober in my 30s, looked around, and didn't know who I could trust for money advice.
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.
I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.
I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for.
Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship.
Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.