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Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar
When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.
My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.
I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.
There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'
No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.
I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.
I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.
I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.
I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.
You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.
I think there are a lot of things that are different and there are a lot of things that are the same.
The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul.
I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.
I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.
The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.
Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.
Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.
The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.
I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
I really believe it's the old cliché, the more you give the more you receive. I'm living proof of that.
I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.
I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
I'm open to whatever. I think sometimes when people collaborate these days, it's a little bit convenient.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms
That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.
So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.
Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.
Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.
I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison.
Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.
Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.