There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.
I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.
The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.
You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.
Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.
I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.
I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.
Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.
I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.
I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.
I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.
You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
