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I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.
All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.
It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.
I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it
When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.
I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.
I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.
We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.
I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me.
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.
I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.
I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.
The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.
I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.
He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.
I don't use Twitter to share my thoughts - I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.
The more we focus on what everyone else is doing wrong, the less energy we have to fix what we're doing wrong.
I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically.
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.
My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.
Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.
I try to have juice that has been squeezed from a juicer and not anything that has been bottled up in a store.
When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.