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I thought 'Gutterflower' was a really good record, but the album before that got so big that everyone expected us to go through that again.
When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
Be humble, be grateful, give back, share, pay it forward, chase your dreams, go for it, and take a moment to remember where it is ALL from.
I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.
When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.
Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.
I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.
Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
I do remember seeing Audio Adrenaline and The Newsboys, basically Christian rock, because that was what I was allowed to see by my parents.
No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.
I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.
I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.
As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you.
I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'
Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.
'World On Fire' isn't necessarily a profound statement about where we are as a planet. It's about living life to the fullest... carpe diem.
I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.
The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.
I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.
It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.
I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.
My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".
I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.
I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.
You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.
I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.
After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.
Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.
I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
I stick to myself now on tours. I don't go out party, drink, smoke, do drugs. It's a dry bus. No one is allowed to bring drinks on the bus.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.