The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead.
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
I couldn’t stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.
I’m really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds – as you would say – bleeds till sunshine.
You can’t put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn’t be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it’s just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don’t think is quite the same as singing it.
I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
The only art I’ll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
For here, I’m sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.
The moment you know you know you know.
To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
There’s just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what’s really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what’s really going on.