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I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.
What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
Actually, I have never been a great fan of martial arts competitions. Not even when I was training martial arts myself.
If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.
If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.
The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.
If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.
A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
I'd watched a lot of David Letterman for sure. As far as who I watched as a late-show host, it was definitely Letterman.
I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.
I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.
It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.
Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.
If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.
People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
You cannot hate the hate out of a person. You cannot beat the hate out of a person. But you can love it out of a person.
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.