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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.
CD's are amazing because you get the artwork, you get to look at the lyrics, you get to look at the behind-the-scenes photos or something.
I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.
I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
Townes Van Zandt ranks alongside Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan. He inspired so many songwriters to shoot for something that's timeless.
When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.
Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.
When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.
The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.
I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!
Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.
I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.
It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.
Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.
Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned, that is fine.
Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.
I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time.
I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.
Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.
Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth
I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.
I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.
In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off
I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.