Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative – that’s all tied to being healthy.
A lot of times I’ll doodle on something while I’m doing interviews, because sometimes I’m on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I’ll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn’t live beyond 30 because we’d be so sad and depressed.
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
We love playing music but were too weird to play music.
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
I think it’s probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.
Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.
I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, ‘God’ll take care of it. God’ll put gas in the car tomorrow’
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
I think if you’re lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.
I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn’t know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren’t making fun of Kylie.
I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don’t get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I’m happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
I embrace the idea that I’m an entertainer.
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let’s cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
Most artists I run into aren’t that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It’s loss would create a very large black hole.
To try to please people is an endless chasing of one’s own tail. That’s not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.