It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
But the star thing I can live with. The music I can’t live without. And that’s how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that’s a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I’d make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?
Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you’ve got to pay.
An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it’s something that you fight for.
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well, don’t waste your time waiting.
Settle back is to settle without knowing.
Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.
I’m a synthesist. I’m always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn’t.
In America everything’s about who’s number one today.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it’s not so good, it’s like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.
To her Cheshire smile, I’ll stand on file, she’s all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.
I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.
The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.