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I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.
I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.
I rent space on a farm for 15 dollars a month, and I have the use of about a quarter of an acre.
It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.
I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.
That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.
I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.
I love the thrill of putting on a record and feeling like you got the wrong one from the factory.
Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.
I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.
As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.
The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.
I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.
I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.
I'm a cereal lover. I could eat it in the morning, in the evening, and at night - I love Cheerios.
Five people in a Volkswagen station wagon without equipment. Now we tour with six people in a van.
There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.
I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
We are not here to get to tomorrow. We are here for today, to bloom today. We were made to Thrive!
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.
He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.
God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.