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However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.
You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.
My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show
We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.
George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
When you go on stage and it's your show, you don't really have to work that hard to win that audience because you've already won them.
I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
We're in the business of making fans that will last with us a lifetime. In order to do that, you've gotta give them something special.
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.
I have a lot of questions and I don't have that many answers. So what better place to exercise those thoughts than the lyrics, I guess.
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.
Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope
I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.
The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.
With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.
Lock all communication. If there's no light within my day. I'd rather stay in isolation. For that special someone a lifetime I'll wait.
Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.
If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may be.
I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'
I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.