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The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.
Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.
The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.
50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.
Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.
We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.
My whole game plan, at first, was I wanted to rock out as hard as I could because usually you're old by the time you're 24.
Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?
If you're white, you're alright. If you're brown, stick around. but if you're black, oh baby. Get back, Get back, Get back.
We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.
Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.
Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.
My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.
We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows
What is South Africa’s sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?
I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.
When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.
If me and my girlfriend were fighting, and it got to the point where she started crying, I would just shut up and hold her.
I think love is like a learning process throughout your life. You learn how to be better at it and you learn more about it.
Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.
I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.
If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.
If you stopped yourself every time you said, I have to and changed it to, I get to, it might change your entire experience.
I want to make an impact on people. Like John Lennon writing 'Imagine,' a song that changes an entire generation of people.
I'm doing this pilot called 'Demon.' Kevin Smith is directing it. It's a comedy drama. I play a guy who rises up from Hell.
Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.
I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.