I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.
'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.
During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.
I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.
What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.
