Musician Quotes

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

I over-think stuff a lot.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

I am from the planet of elegance.

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.