“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
“Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it”
“I tell you what’s really ridiculous–going into a bookstore and there’s all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you’re already dead.”
“I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that’s unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.”
“Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man’s thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance”
“Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn’t be my job.”
“If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately”
“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom”
“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time”
“I’m not afraid of computers taking over the world. They’re just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.”
“There’s the beautiful people and then there’s the rest of us”
“Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don’t ask me why, it just is”
“Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything”
“Immerse your soul in love”
“It’s a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.”
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape”
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