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The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.
When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.
I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.
Somewhere along the way, things got confused, and the pop-star side of my career got in the way of my musician side.
I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
You can tell when someone has had a facelift and I haven't had a facelift, and I look like I haven't had a facelift.
I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.
Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me.
There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.
An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.
I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.
The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.
My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.
As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.
Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.
I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.
People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.
Europe really needs to wake up, cast aside the lies and get rid of the Jewish yoke we live under - once and for all.
If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.
For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
Trump is kind of fascinating. I wish he was only seen in black-and-white 'cause he's like a character from the 1890s.
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.
Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.
Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.
I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.
Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.