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I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
I eat meat daily. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arabic. What's the kind of person that doesn't eat meat? That's right - I'm not a vegetarian.
For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.
I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.
First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.
Guitar Player' was always the serious musician's magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes
I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
When I was a kid, I played drums, and when I first got a 4-track, I would put down drumbeats and then do the rest of the tracks on top.
It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.
If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
I've never believed in so much as I do the BVB Army. Rock and Roll is my religion. And Rock and Roll is back. I love all of you outcast.
The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.
So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world. We see it when we're on tour.
I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.
As soon as I figured out I didn't know anything about music, I was OK. It's when I thought I could learn something that I was in trouble.
We just stuck to what we did best. Maybe that's why people plug into us and go 'They never change.' We're reliable. A bit like old shoes.
I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.
It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.
Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.
I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.
Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.
It is just satisfying to think that, somehow, my music and my story could touch someone and make them want to make their own life better.