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I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.
WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.
I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.
I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.
Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.
I did a lot singing for one album for Crosby, Stills & Nash, and at the time, they didn't want anyone to know it wasn't Crosby.
Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.
I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.
All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?
I really like proto-metal, so stuff like Pentagram is really great, and that's more in the vein of Sabbath and stuff like that.
Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
Me and my two best friends went to see the Ramones in 1979, and two weeks later, I was like, 'We're starting a band. That's it.'
There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.
Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.
The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.
Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.
The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
I like to read a lot, man. I read a lot and meditate and just go to that place. I'm not really an outdoorsman. I don't watch TV.
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark
I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'
I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.
I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.
What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.
I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.
I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.
I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.
A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.
I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.
The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.