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I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.
When Chuck Norris stands in front of a mirror it shatters because the mirror knows never to stand between CHUCK NORRIS and CHUCK NORRIS.
I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
It just burns my heart that there's such a massive discrepancy in the number of male producers in the industry, versus female producers.
I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.
We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our way of doing business.
When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.
The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.
My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.
I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.
Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.
Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.
I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
If I told you Jesus Christ was black you're going to be afraid of me because I'm telling you the truth. That's where I always come from.
Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about
People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"
The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.
With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.
I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible.
When I was little, 4 or 5 years old, the first guitar I had was given to me by a blacklisted violinist - a lefty, commie guy, pinko man.
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.
There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.
Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.
Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and Mose Allison.
A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.