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I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.
I'd love to be more involved in sports. There's so much positive energy - I have to be around it. Especially as I get older.
How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.
You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.
My favorite thing about the Ultimate Queen Celebration is that we're not afraid to explore a non-traditional Queen set list.
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.
I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.
I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.
Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith.
The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.
What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.
UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time in hell
I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'
I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.
And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.
I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.
To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.
I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.
I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!
I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.
There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.
Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.
I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot.
Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.
There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.
I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.
I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.
So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."