I’m gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.
If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
The Breakfast of Champions isn’t cereal, it’s the competition!
When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that’s when you know you’ve made it.
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don’t need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.
It doesn’t matter the kind of music, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don’t care if it’s outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.
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?
For the last 30 years, I’ve been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that’s involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you’re not only allowed that, but you’re encouraged.
They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It’s sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello.
On parties it’s not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
I’ve always been very self-motivated.
In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you’re down below 14th Street in New York City, that’s bohemian; that’s left-wing.
I grew up on radio, not TV.