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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.
Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors.
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
I've written many love songs for Gerard. But it's never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.
This could be it, I think I'm in love. It's love this time... It just seems to fit, I think I'm in love... This love is mine.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader.
Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.
The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.
I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they're doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.
Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.
I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.
I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.
Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.
We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.
I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.
My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
I want people to FEEL something... If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.
When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.
Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.
What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world.
I feel like I am alone when I am in the presence of those I love. It is so freeing and comfortable, you become one with them.
If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.
Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.
Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.
I will say one thing: Mick Mars is one of the greatest songwriters I've ever met in my life and had the pleasure to work with.
My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.
Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?
I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.