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I grew up really kind of mixed up. I lived with my white grandparents and mom and got made fun of a lot because I talked like her.
I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.
I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable.
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.
When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and things like that.
I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old
I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.
The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch
Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.
Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.
I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.
I've always mixed my music by myself. Of course, there will always be some complications here and there, but it's never a problem.
I'll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you've got to have that mentality and personality. I'd rather be the bass guy.
You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?
Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day it's not gonna be here. So just be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.
A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.
All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.
The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.
The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mom not to be a liar.
A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.
There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.
My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.
Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight
It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.