There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar. . . flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. . . you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know people are going to stop you on the street and ask you for your autograph. But as an author? That's not something I was ready for.
People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff. . . Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.
I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels
Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve. . . As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.
Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.
I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.
Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.
With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.
The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.
I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.