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We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.
I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.
I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.
America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
Maybe something new is even being done by people who see our generation as an enemy. That can create energy as well.
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
Spiffy is a free-loading deadbeat kitty who sits around on my couch, watches TV all day, and eats all the Triscuits.
What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity.
I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.
You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.
If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.
Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.
I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.
Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.
You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Interviewer: "What keeps you grounded?" Bieber: "Gravity." Interviewer: "What's up, Justin?" Bieber: "The sky, man."
I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.
Being off the road is one of the greatest things ever. It's hard for me to be around my friends who are on the road.
Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.
Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.
I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.
Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human
I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.
There's this song called 'Brad Chester,' which is like the depths of my family. It comes from a very personal place.
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
There are people I love in Nashville and would not want to go a day without talking to, but I want to see the world.
I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.
This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.
You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.
I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.
I love some kind of pressure in the air. Some kind of weirdness in the crowd, good or bad. That's what we thrive on.
It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.