Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers.
The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.
Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.
I’m much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...
Would you respect me if I didn’t have this gun? Cause without it, I don’t get it, and that’s why I carry one.
You can wipe off that grin, I know where you’ve been, it’s all been a pack of lies.
If it’s the beginning of something – like an album, I’m working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
I’m just trying to do things that are interesting for me.
I don’t really listen to music.
I just don’t think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I’m fortunate that I make ends meet.
I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I’m a nutter. I don’t think that’s fair.
I prefer black music in general.
I’m fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I’m sort of interested in the gory details of life.
I’m sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn’t mean it to happen like that. It’s hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
I’m usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
I’ve got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It’s fantastic just to know it’s one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
I don’t own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you’re just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
I can’t play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn’t bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can’t hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.
I’ll have the music, and then I’ll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.