Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.
You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I’m going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I’m going to be all right.
As crises came up later on – “Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this,” I’d be like, “No, I don’t have to.”
Sometimes you’re up against everybody in the whole world – even your friends and family are saying, “You need a single.” You feel sometimes incredibly alone.
I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don’t want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.
People don’t realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, “If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!”
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
Adventures suck when you’re having them.
No changes are permanent, but change is.
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
No one gets to their heaven without a fight.
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
We’re only immortal for a limited time.
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
I’m still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it’s intended to be a joke.
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
Too much attention and hoopla doesn’t agree with my temperament.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.