If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.'
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.
When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
Just seeing people appreciate what you do, come out and support it, and sing the songs back, there's not a better feeling in the world.
I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea
Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.
A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.
