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Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.
Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.
When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
Even if you don't have anything, even if you've got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.
"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.
I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to thee.
You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.
It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through the arcades.
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.
I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved.
It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.
I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.
If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.
Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.
I don't have any interest in going out to clubs. I love people, and I love socializing, I just don't have any interest in being drunk.
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here
I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.
I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.
When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.
There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"
Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.
I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.
If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.
I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.
Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.