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In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.
If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.
I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio.
I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.
The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.
People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.
If you pay too much attention to hate, they win...they bring you down. Too much love in the world to deal with that nonsense. Be positive.
I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my mom says it might be poisonous.
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
Camp is so universal. It buys that sense of togetherness. You have camp friends that you only see at camp and couldn't see an entire year.
Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.
I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.
I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.
Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.
I'm glad that we can add something new to the fold that Metallica's not going to bring to the table, and they're going to do what they do.
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'
When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.
As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.
When I started forming my own taste, there was a period in high school when I listened to only rap and hip-hop, like A Tribe Called Quest.
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell
Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.
I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.
We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff.
Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.
We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.
I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.
One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.
At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.
I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.