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Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.
You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.
I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.
I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.
When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.
Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.
Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.
If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work.
I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.
Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.
When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.
We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
I'd love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time with that guy
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.
I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.
Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.
What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.
Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.
The bonds you make with those records when you're 14, 15 and 16, they'll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that.
I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.
I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.
Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.
~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.
I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to the drudgery.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.