Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
I don't like looking back.
I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.
I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.
A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.