You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

I find words really hard.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

I want to be in the best band in the world again.

I'll never have a stylist.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

I'm not looking for guidance.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

You've either got it or you haven't.

It gets better and better being me

Everyone knows that if youve got a brother youre going to fight.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.