My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
I wanna be a nice guy.
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
I'm not an urban person.
In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
Não se pode repetir os velhos tempos. Como o nome já diz, esses tempos são velhos. Novos tempos não podem ser nunca como os velhos tempos. Quando se tenta, eles parecem tão somente antigos e gastos, como aquele pelos quais se suspira.
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
College kids, don't be taking examples from me.
I'm quite an eclectic musician.
Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
I really, really like writing songs.
Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
