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I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.
People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.
I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
I'm not making music for intelligent people or dumb people. I'm just making music for people.
Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
Make the most of now before it all changes because one day right now is going to be a memory.
And for me, I guess the person who I tell everything that I'm going through is you. The fans.
Right now I'm just single, but I'm really looking forward to the day when I'm happily single.
I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.
No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.
People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.
But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.
In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America.
Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
I never thought I would be a role model for anything. But a role model for fun, I can do that.
My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.
There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.
The alarm on my wife's phone is 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered,' so that's a great way to wake up.
You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.
While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.
Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.