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.
In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.
You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally.
I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.
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.
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.
When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.
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.
God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes
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.
You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'
I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.
The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
