Musician Quotes

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

I quite like ABBA.

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised.

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

I love Diane Keaton's style in 'Annie Hall,' but I like to think my own style is like a cross between 'Annie Hall' and Prince.

I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I love Beyonce.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

God is great.

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.

This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.