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Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.
It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.
Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.
The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.
It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.
When you have so many things, and you have no idea why, you think, 'Maybe I'm supposed to do things for other people.'
I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'
If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?
You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.
The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.
This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.
You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.
The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.
The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.
I've had a nice career. I'm no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I'm not an icon. I'm just a working artist.
The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.
Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.
Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.
I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.
I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.
There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of a family-business thing.
I hope we're not the last of the Mohicans when it comes to putting on a big, crazy, over-the-top theatrical rock show.
I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me
I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.
I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.
If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present, that is.
I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arriving back at Heathrow.
I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.