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I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue to aim for that.
Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.
Back in the day, I don't think record labels were looking at Las Vegas too much for new acts, until the Killers came out.
You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.
If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?
I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.
A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.
We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.
Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.
It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.
I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.
I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. They've perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy.
I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.
As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.
Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.
I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.
The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.
A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.
Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.
I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.
I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.
How many ways can you cut a steak? How many ways can a chord go? I've been in this business so long, I know how to cut it.
Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.
You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.