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When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.
Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.
I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher.
That's one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can't hear what's there properly.
People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.
I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.
I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.
I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.
I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.
When I'm afraid of something, I'm going at it twice as hard. I don't believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.
I'm one of those guys who always has that kind of underlying anxiety kind of always creeping around in the background.
Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.
My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.
We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
The day I was born, March 1, 1994, Celine Dion was solid at #1 with 'The Power of Love.' Not a bad start to your life.
I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.
I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.
I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.
I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.
In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.
As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.
Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy
At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.
Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible...Fo rgiveness
I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'