In reality, people are who they are and they'll never really change.
To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.
Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime
The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.
It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.
Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.
A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.