Musician Quotes

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.

I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather tha

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully whil

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.