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Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.
My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.
The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.
The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.
The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.
I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.
There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.
I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.
At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.
My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.
When the world wants too much And it feels cold and out of touch It's a beautiful place When you kiss my face from The Woman In Me
I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.
That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.
Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.
Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.
I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.
And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.
The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.
Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
I hate to admit it to my wife, but I only wear two outfits on the road, and then a third one during the day, but I carry about 20.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
When I was young, a gatefold album by 'Pink Floyd' or 'Led Zeppelin' was something to get excited about, something you longed for.
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.
Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.
I write when the baby is asleep or when I'm on the road I write a lot... There's always time to do it. It's like getting exercise.
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'