It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
There is safety in the very heart of danger.
I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
My work is has always been very, very personal.
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.
Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.
I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.
I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.
It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.
There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
