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Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities
I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold it all sacred.
I think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying to make.
The great thing about being on tour is that... the band plays at night and other than that we have a lot of free time.
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
Someone asked me if I play piano because I feel like I have a protective wall around me. Maybe. I am really messed up.
The first record I ever bought was Kiss's 'Destroyer.' And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves.
I'm still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.
I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.
How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.
I love Los Angeles, and I've secretly always wanted to do a song about Los Angeles, but it's a hard thing to pull off.
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.
When you first open Niall [Horan]'s wallet, the first thing you see is a picture of Justin Bieber and a picture of us.
For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
I'd make a good psychiatrist. I can work people out very easily and very quickly. I've been like that since childhood.
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.
There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.
The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.
It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
Cher hated 'If I Could Turn Back Time.' I had to beg her, literally, on my knees, just to try it. Happens all the time.
Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.
Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.
Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.
I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.
When a good idea sparks, it's usually because of some subversive angle that means the song we're writing will be fresh.
I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.
There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.
When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.
Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?
Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort.
The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.
Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.
Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.
That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.
It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.
I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.