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When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.
It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.
Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.
I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.
I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.
Having the right perspective is tough when you’re alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.
The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.
She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.
What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
There's no more denying it, or saying we live in a post-racist society. All you have to do is turn on the TV and see all these hate crimes.
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.
I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'
Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.
It was you that chose your due, You built a maze you can't get through. I tried to help you all I can, Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man!
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.
Songs that are just a vehicle for a guitar solo are very empty, just an excuse for a guitarist to show what scales he practiced last month.
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.
Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.
I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.
I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)
We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.
What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.
It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.
My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.
I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.
I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.
I wake up: I am mental, I got to bed and I am mental, I am mental within my dreams, I am mental within my normal state, I'm out of my mind.
When someone's in the hospital - be it a family member or anyone that has something wrong with them - if you love 'em, then you visit them.
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.
Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy