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The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.
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.
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs.
If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.
Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.
[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.
My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.
The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.
For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know?
I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing
Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.
2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid
What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.
ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.
I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.
There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.
I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.
The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
I'll never be rude to another news person. It's a tough job, a thankless job. You really have to get out there and grovel to get your story.
Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.
Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.
The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.
There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.