I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.
Fear is something I try not to absorb.
If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine. . . I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.
The gigs I enjoy are the ones where I'm so angry and paranoid, and I hate the audience so much, that I put everything into it to feed off the aggressive side of it. I don't actually hate the fans but when I'm feeling angry, pissed off, and full of hate, it's a good gig for me.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.
There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.
Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.