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I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.
We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.
There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.
I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.
Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.
I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.
Writing Christian or worship music is just because I love Jesus, so everything I do is going to be an overflow of that.
You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.
I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.
I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.
The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.
No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.
God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.
When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... Twista. He's super fast.
It really took me a long time to become comfortable as a performer. I think I'm finally starting to enjoy playing live.
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.
Remind yourself that when things don't go right, everything will be OK. And if you think that, then everything will be.
When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.
I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.
We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.
Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.
I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.
Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...
I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.
I don't see how 'Hunchback' could ever appeal to children. It's a very adult story that deals with repressed sexuality.
Is there anything in life more exhilarating than having 15,000 people absolutely ecstatic to be seeing your human form?
Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.
Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.
Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.