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I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.
I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.
Turn your eyes away from fear. Discontinue the conversations of fear if you choose to embrace the fullness of your heart
I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.
I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.
Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.
When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives.
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.
As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.
I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.
Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?
I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.
I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.
It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
I had a vision of what it would look like if like seventy people at the same time went nuts and sprayed water everywhere.
We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.
Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.
I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.
You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.
It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.
Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.
We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.
I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.