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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.
Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that's what the person who's hearing it needs.
We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.
I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!
If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.
I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.
I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.
I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.
You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.
Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.
From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.
Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.
I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.
My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.
I would like to confirm that Perri Reid was the only person who ever suggested that Chilli leave TLC.
I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.
Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.
Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly
Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?
See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.
I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.
I have not been a big fan of very sweet drinks, although the Manhattan cocktail is a favorite of mine.
I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.
Three things it would be extremely difficult to play a show without: makeup, my vocal cords and pants.
Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.