I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.
I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.
Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.
I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'
My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.
I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.
When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
