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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.
I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.
You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.
I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I'm going to be. But, thank God, I'm not what I was!
I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.
I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.
Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.
I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.
I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.
Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?
I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.
I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!
If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.
I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.
I like to write from scratch most of the time, but I like to have a backup plan just in case.
I don't isolate too much or make the project my god. This helps a lot with negative ideation.
We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.
I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.
Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'
The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.
I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.
The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?
I wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side.
Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.
Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.
I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.
The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?
I do think about and do occasionally take my wife and son out with me on tour. It's difficult.
I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
Being in front of the cameras is not my favorite thing to do. But it's a good problem to have.
It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.
Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.
We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.