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I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.
My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.
I don't mind going out to do my shows but I can still retreat back into my own private world, you know? And that is very key.
I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.
If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.
I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me.
Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.
The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.
The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!
How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock 'n' roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.
There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.
I wore a 'Black Metal' Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.
It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?
I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.
I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.
It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.
Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power
I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.
I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.
My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.
I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.
I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.