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I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.
I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they're not affected by my life.
Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.
I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.
People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'
You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.
But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
Whatever I do, whether it sells or not, at least I mean it at the time and I'm honest about it. Which I think is the only way to be.
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.
People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?
Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.
I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.
I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.
I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.
Me and my dad were so much alike that we would just butt heads. I pretty much hated him from the age of 16 to 24 for no real reason.
I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.
We're no longer slaves to fear. That doesn't mean we're emotionless now, or never face fear, it just means we don't have to obey it.
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
When everyone tells you, 'No, no, no,' your creative forces get a little twisted and turn into something more apocalyptic than ever.
Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.
I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.
I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.
I'm telling you, people. Everyday we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone stop you. Never say never.
I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.
I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Everybody on my street was broke, running around with no shoes on. We didn't have money, but we played tag, we talked. It was great.
The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and put on really good shows.
I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.
Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.