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I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.
There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.
Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.
I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.
Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist
You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.
Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.
Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.
I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.
The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?
Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.
I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories
I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.
When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.
I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.
Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.
I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.