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I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.
Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
The process of coming out, as much as other people want to couch it in terms of politics, it's a very personal journey.
I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.
I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.
It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.
Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.
I don't consider myself to be a racist, but to me there's not much difference between a black racist or a white racist.
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.
Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
Life is sometimes you're happy, sometimes you're sad, sometimes you're in love, sometimes you fight, and that's a life.
We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things.
The thing is, the better the hardware, the more time we spend to improve the visuals to take advantage of the hardware.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.
As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.
For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.
I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'
We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.
If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.
I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.