You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.
The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.
I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
There's nothing like a stressful day.
I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.
Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'
Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.
I was up above it Now I'm down in it.
I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.
The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.
I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
I want to do something that matters.
When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.
One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.
Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.
When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend?
I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.
His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
