Musician Quotes

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.

I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.