We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
Cruel to be kind means that I love you.
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition.
The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.