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In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.
I enjoy watching Chris Matthews a lot. He reminds me of a throwback to the older school kind of pundits like Tim Russert.
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.
I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.
I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.
I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night.
II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
I think we should all be servants. To be really great in God's eyes is to be least among each other and serve each other.
I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.
Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.
The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.
Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.
We've finished our debut album which has 14 tracks. We're very proud of the release and can't wait for people to hear it.
Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.
As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.
I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.
I'm in love with God and God's in love with me, this is who I am and this is who I'll be and that settles it. Completely.
When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.
I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.
I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.
Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.
I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.
My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background.
As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.
For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.
I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.
I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.