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In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.
Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.
In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.
They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.
I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don’t look good in pictures, even though they look great?
I definitely wouldn't be the performer I am today if the gay audience had not been so supportive of me as a complete unknown.
I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.
It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.
I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories
If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.
I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.
I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.
I used to be a big 'Star Search' fan. I think it's great people who have a music dream have a place to showcase their talent.
Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.
My best exercise is going on stage and playing, but I stay active. I don't just sit around on my butt all day and do nothing.
Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.
A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.
I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.
I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.
I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.
[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.
There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.
Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.
When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.
I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.
I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.
There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.