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If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.
Jesus was a friend and not a judge. He loved the sinners as much as He loved the little ones. That man was love and not an act
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.
There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.
I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.
I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
When you're on the road, you've got to have your four-track - or some kind of recording device to jam on and have a good time.
Yeah, nothing feels better than knowing that I can put a guitar in my hands at any time and rip - even when I'm taking a crap!
I don't have resentments towards anyone I played with or to the guy who bullied me in the sixth grade. I've worked through it.
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
Limp Bizkit Ice Cream would taste like the sweetest pair of panties in the world. It would taste like sushi. Sushi or panties.
Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.
I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.
Traveling is a bit of a push sometimes. When you're doing a lot of miles and you're doing a lot of shows, it does get wearing.
Since I was growing up, I liked love songs - Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke. That was the kind of songs getting the girls dancing.
The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.
If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.
People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.
I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.
I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.
'Angel Of Death' was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn't going to release it.
I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.
You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.
The Yardbirds folded in 1968, and within a handful of months, Led Zeppelin was not only a band but also a very successful one.
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
I'm so excited 'Doctor Who''s coming back. It's a great show, wild and exciting. I watched it as a kid, and it freaked me out.
I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.
I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.
Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.
I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.
Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars.