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There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.
I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.
I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America.
I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.
I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.
I thought that the older I got, that partying would change - and it has - in the way that now I know how to party.
When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!
I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling.
My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at all.
A lot of things have been said about me. People are going to talk, and that's a good thing; I want people to talk.
When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.
I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
I've given up my Ferrari - the idea of going through my village in a 488... You can't drive them on English roads.
Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.
If It's your passion and you want to do it for the rest of your life, why would comments stop you from doing that?
I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'
We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.
No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute.
I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.
People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.
If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.
My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom
I approach every single thing I do as a fan. It's the only way I can do things. That way, I never let myself down.
You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.
I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look up to.
If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.