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There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.
When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.
Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules. By that definition, we are a hardcore band.
People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.
We do benefits for various groups. But the main reason to be B-52's is to have fun and party and go nuts.
I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.
I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.
Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.
A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.
I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.
I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.
I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.
I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.
While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.
Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.
I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.
Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.
I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.
I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.
Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.
I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.
I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.
I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.
When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?
I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.
There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.
Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.
With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'
Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.
I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.