Musician Quotes

If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'

I must be allowed to be as I am.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.