I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.
I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.
My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
