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I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.
Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.
I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.
Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.
Environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.
We want to keep developing original games in the genre we pioneered but also expand our audience by being present on all platforms.
The concept of 'Heavy Rain' is to offer real-life situations with real characters. There are no supernatural elements in the story.
When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.
The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.
We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.
My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.
You become friends with your kids' friends' parents. That's just the way it's gonna be. And sometimes you luck out, and it's great.
A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.
I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.
This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else
What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.
You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.
I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
We're ganna we like to actually um, kidnap them in a van, and tie them up, and leave them somewhere dangerous...that's the SUPRISE!
I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.
Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.
When I first started in this industry, my goal was to be some best friend. The sidekick. I thought that would be an accomplishment.
I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.
Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.
If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.
It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.