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I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.
You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making.
It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
My musical tastes are very diverse. I just never felt like listening to certain kinds of bands. There's too much great stuff out there.
It's one thing to fail with something you utterly believe in, but to fail with something you don't believe in? You just feel so sordid.
For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.
Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.
I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.
When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.
If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.
Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know?
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.
We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.
Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.
I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Ignore the negativity in your life. Right now I'm taking bullets for other people and sometimes in life that's where courage comes from.
I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.
Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.
I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics
I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder, Peter? You tell me. I like Boulder. We just don't live that way.
I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.
When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.