Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.

I paint my own nails and only get my hair cut when it really needs it.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

When you're confident about something, people can't bully you about it.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

I don't like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.

Creativity is a powerful force for anyone attempting to heal themselves.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.

Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

I'm one of those people who likes to be the only redhead in the village.

I don't know any Mormon that doesn't have warm memories of their family.

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

The moon is high. The sea is deep. They rock and rock and rock to sleep.

It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

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