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I used to love watching 'Hee Haw' on TV when I was a kid. My brothers and sisters weren't happy about it, but I just loved the music.
I remember riding around with my friends with 'Ain't Even Done with the Night' cranked up and my windows down. Those were great days.
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.
I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.
A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.
When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.
I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.
The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
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've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.
I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.
It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.
We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'
I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.
I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.
If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.
As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.
No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building.
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.
I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.
Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.
I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.
The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.
I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.
Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.
My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.
You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.
if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.