Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.
I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next. . . But it was always someone else instead of me.
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.
If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.