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I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

In show business, generally you don't retire. If you love it, that is, you're in it forever anyway.

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.

On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

There was just one time when the band took a big break, and I did that Nina project in Japan in 1999.

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

When you're young, you're immortal, or so you think, and you never think there will be problems ahead.

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

What happens is we finish the show, have a couple of drinks, go back to the hotel, talk, and that's it.

You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

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