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If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did.
Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.
I never planned to join Black Sabbath - it just happened. It was back in 1979 when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary.
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.
I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would write collectively.
There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.
The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.
I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.
At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.
I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.
You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?
I didn't arrive on the scene until after Jaco Pastorius had passed, but 'Three Views of a Secret' is a long-time favourite of mine.
Salacious? I suppose every once in a while the salacious thing is not a bad thing. It's kind of monochromatic if that's all you do.
I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.
One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only supposed to be one God.
I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.
I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.
Music is supposed to be an escape, It's supposed to be somewhere you can go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you wanna be.
I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.
Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.
Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.
I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.
My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.
The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.
I love Christmas. I'm really sentimental about it. My parents made it awesome for us, and we were allowed to be kids for a long time.
You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.
God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.
I'm part of a healthful movement, and very aware of what I put into my body, and my body's upkeep. And that will lead you to exercise.
What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.
One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.
I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.