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Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming?
Always know that if you’re not happy with yourself, no one else can change that, no girl or guy, no amount of money; only yourself.
I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.
In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.
One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your own music.
I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.
'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft.
Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole.
I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'
I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.
Im a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.
Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.
To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.
People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl.
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.
When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.
I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven't cracked it.
The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.
Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again
Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.
I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.
Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.
There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because that's what songs are for.
I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.
I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
I love making music, and I love touring. I love that I get to wake up and play music. I don't like being away from my wife and kids.
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.
I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!
I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.
I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.