Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should soundlook is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.
I still have access to enough money to live on in order to avoid bankruptcy for at least a few years as long as I stick to my budget Still, there's no amount of money in the world that makes one feel content with having no self respect. There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping. '
We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.
I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'. . . They always have very weird eyes, those people.
. . . he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.
The Independent Record Store is the reason why i STILL do music. . . It seems like they're the only ones that Really care about the real music lovers. . . we need them. . . they're our balance to all of the music we are FORCED to listen to. . . they're the only ones that may still suggest something NEW and FRESH instead of just what's popular.