It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.
When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country's policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.
Nothing can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars.
You make mistakes and you learn from them.
Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.
A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.
I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.
I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.
I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.
When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being at home, depressed, reading 'The Hobbit.'
When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.
These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.
I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'
For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.
Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.
Lord, I want to be up in my heart.
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
