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I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.
And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.
It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.
I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.
I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.
I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible.
I feel like what's important is to interact with your fans online. Touring is really important to stay connected with your fans.
I'd never have imagined it when I was younger. A trans woman on the cover of 'Time?' That is unfathomable to the 15-year-old me.
I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.
There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary for music.
We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.
What made 'Dark Side Of The Moon' so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it.
Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.
That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.
It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.
People tend to forget you. I didn't want people to go, 'That is that guy that used to play in Van Halen. What's his name again?'
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.
I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.
I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.
I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
Happy Song' is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real problems.
That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
I think that my parents wanted my brother and I to do what they couldn't have done and live a free life and not worry about war.
I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.
You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.
My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.
I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.
The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.
I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common.