I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn’t quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it’s kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
Let’s look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.
You’ve got your entourage and people that help you make whatever happen around you. Everything’s crazy and you’re not paying attention to your inner feelings because you’re so busy. I couldn’t take it.
We’re beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.
Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.
People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don’t have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I’m not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.
I never sit down to write or say, “Today, I have to record something.” I wait to hear it and then I go for it.
I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.
Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.
I’m not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.
I don’t like to approach people that much. There’s been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn’t. Then you think, man, who knows?
After listening to “Machine Gun” I have to take a nap.
A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you’re in tune with that, you’ll read into it.
Eventually you’re going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn’t matter as long as what you’re hitting first is what you want it to be.
Nine out of ten groups that came out in ’89 are gone. I’m still here.
God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I’m gonna be miserable?
I didn’t really listen to rock ‘n’ roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.