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" It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot. "

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" Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it. "

" As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling. "

" Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I. "

" I sang in choir as a kid. "

" Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride. "

" Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. "

" Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted. "

" Bowie's obviously my biggest influence. "

" I really have paid no attention to social media. It's never been something that I've done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what's going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous. "

" Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. "

" The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable. "

" It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago. "

" If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies. "

" I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. "

" You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore. "

" I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. "

" To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it. "

" I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes. "

" I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. "

" As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. "

" The Beatles have always had a big effect on me. "

" Well, a lot of successes come by mistake. "

" When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose. "

" But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself. "

" You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion. "

" You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music. "

" There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance. "

" I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems. "

" I think to stay in one sound is a career killer. "

" My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music. "