I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.
I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.
When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.
I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.
There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.
I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.
Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.
To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current.
I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
Even through the darkest phase Be it thick or thin Always someone marches brave Here beneath my skin
I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.
Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
My favorite color right now is purple, but it used to be pink. It's kind of always going to be pink.
I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.
Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.
Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?
I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.
I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.