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I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.
I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.
I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.
It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.
I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.
I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.
I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.
I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.
I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.
That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.
I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'
The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.
I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.
As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.
I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.
I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.
I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.
It doesn't take a miracle or a natural disaster to live in the world that you're after, the change is gonna happen to you
I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.'
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.
I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.
We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...
You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.
Yesterday doesn't count. It is what you do today that counts. No amount of talking about yesterday is going to change it.
I think Taylor Swift, in the days when she was kind of doing more country style, definitely was a big inspiration for me.
I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.
I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!
My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.
It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.