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I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.
The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.
There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
I've been dedicating my life to doing remixes and sample based music. Whether you're into it or not I'm going to continue to pump it out.
Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.
I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it.
You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.
I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
Well, there's Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there's people living in it.
Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.
We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.
There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart.
Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.
Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.
I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.
I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.
The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.
I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.
Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.
I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.
I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady GaGa, just musically.
It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.
It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.
I'm the kind of guy who has your back. When you want to go off and solo for ten minutes, I keep that groove going. It's an important job.
We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.
You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.
Crohn's patients differentiate their diet. You know, what I can handle and tolerate, another person couldn't, and what they can, I can't.
I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes off as too artificial.
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.
There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the inside?
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.
If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.