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.
Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.
I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.
I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.
You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet.
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.
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
