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I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.
Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.
Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.
We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
'Fahrenheit' was a very difficult product to sell to publishers initially because no-one believed in storytelling or emotion.
Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean.
You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.
In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.
Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.
Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.
I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity
What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.
Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.
We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.
I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.
To me, country music is emotions, certain harmonies. But it's all in the emotions - a lot of good times, a lot of hard times.
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.
I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed.
I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing.
Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.
Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.
My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.
I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.
When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.
We have opportunities to be used by the living God on a daily basis and I don't need the platform of a concert hall to do so.
The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.
My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.
The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.
I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.
When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.