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In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.
I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.
Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
Chicken is good and never stop eating you will look like me and you will have hair like me and sing like me and be 500 pounds!!!!
Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult.
The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.
I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
Growing up, my experience with transsexualism was nothing but shame. It was something very hidden, and dealt with very privately.
I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons.
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.
You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.
You get your time in the limelight but you don't know how long it's going to last. It's great, but you have to put up with a lot.
Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.
There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.
So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.
We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.
A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys.
Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.
What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.
I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.
No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.
He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.
The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.
I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.
If I walk down the street in jeans and a plain t-shirt, I don't feel like the world sees me as I want to be seen or as what I am.
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.
My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression.
Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.
I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.