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My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.
I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.
A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'"
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.
I want a steamy little Jewish Princess with over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums. I don't want no troll, I just want a Yemenite hole.
I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.
Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.
I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.
I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.
Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.
A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.
I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.
It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.
Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.
In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.
I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you're essentially an influencer.
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.
I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.
I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.
Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong.
I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.
I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
I find that when you grow and evolve with music, the music understands you, and vice versa - whether or not the creator of that music knows.
Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.
There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it
A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.
There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.
I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.
I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.
The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.