Musician Quotes

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

What my home life is like now is great.

Now everybody's sampling.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

I wasn't born a superstar.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

I want to be cutting-edge.

I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.