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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.
You remember the night that you left me, you put me in my place. Got you in a stranglehold now baby, gonna crush your face.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.
I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours
I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.
When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
I like country music. Sometimes I'll just type in 'country' on Pandora and listen. I really like the passion in the lyrics.
I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.
To me, rock n' roll is rock n' roll. I try to think of it as that. To me, Funkadelic and Metallica exist in the same world.
I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.
I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.
I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.
On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.
All the song choices that we've picked are unique in their own right. They're fun, and it's really just to engage our fans.
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.
I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal
I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.
For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.
I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.
The one thing I’ve always had going for me was people’s low expectations. Nobody ever expects a whole hell of a lot from me.
I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.
I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.