Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
Fear, she’s the mother of violence.
Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment – to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.
I think another thing is that we don’t really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist’s interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.
I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don’t catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream...
I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away.
I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
Whistling tunes we’re kissing baboons in the jungle.
You can blow out a candle, but you can’t blow out a fire.
There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.
The book of love has music in it In fact that’s where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb.
I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
Letting go, it’s so hard The way it’s hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing ’cos if I follow through I face what I denied I’ll get those hooks out of me And I’ll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.
Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.