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When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.
Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.
'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.
Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .
Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of 'em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.
I've been touring every year since the band broke up. It's my job. It's what I love to do. So I'm all good with it.
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
I assume I must have a pension, but I don't know for sure. I have heard of ISAs, but I can't tell you if I have any.
Can you imagine doing 'Nessa Dorma' with Luciano Pavarotti the maestro? It's unbelievable. He's a very generous man.
When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.
It's true. I'm not a spokesperson. But I can say now that transgendered people like to be heard and to be respected.
I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.
MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.
I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think … Satan.
It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.
I couldn't do anything without faith. I couldn't open up my eyes, I couldn't walk, I couldn't speak, I couldn't sing.
[Dean Martin] my favourite out of everyone because there is a grace that he brings. What he did seemed so effortless.
In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!
I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.
I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.
I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don't think you need much more inspiration than that.
Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.
Cindy had two kids. We did manage to keep playing and doing summer tours with the Go-Gos, the Pretenders, and Blondie.
I try to sleep as much as I can. I drink a lot of water. I practice consistently and just try to be ready for the gig.
I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.
The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.
If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don't think, 'I'll have a few pints. I'll piss up this shrine.'
As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.
My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.
Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.
I used to stick my head out the window when I was a kid and sing at the top of my lungs and think no one could hear me.
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.
Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.
Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.
If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.
The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.