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Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.
Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.
I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.
There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.
I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart.
You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.
I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.
Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.
I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart.
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.
I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.
I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.
In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime
It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.
What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.
The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on piano.
I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.
We put up these facades, of maybe strength of who we are, but inside there's this incredibly broken person.
If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.
I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.
I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an 'X Factor' winner because I owe everything to this thing.
All my confidence has disappeared because the whole nation thinks I'm a homophobe who looks like a monster.
I was able to overcome this because of the fans who waited for me. I promise not to disappoint you anymore.
Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?