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Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.
I grew up poor in East Houston. I used to be ashamed of it, but I'm not anymore. It's kind of a badge of courage now.
I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.
If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.
I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.
People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.
Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.
How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?
Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.
If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?
We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
I just like being in a place where there are lots of people playing. You might get to spend a minute, or collaborate.
My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.
'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.
As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.
I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice.
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.
The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it's good, because it's kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
The metal press has a certain type of audience, and I think most of them support the magazines' negative focus on me.
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
I don't have a computer, but when I get access to one, I'm always looking myself up on Google, because it's exciting.
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They're genuinely excited and appreciative that you're playing their country.
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.
I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more
Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.
I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.
So happy just to be alive, Underneath the sky of blue, On this new morning, new morning, On this new morning with you.
There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist