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It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.
I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.
Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.
If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.
We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.
It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.
We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.
If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.
I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.
You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.
I think all my albums have concentrated on songs, I've never taken the typical Van Halen route to try and become a guitar hero.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.
I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.
I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.
Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget about all that.
All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.
I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.
Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.
I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.
For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.
It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.
.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players
It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.
To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.
I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.
While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.