I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.
I really believe in melody.
Sekarang saya tahu satu hal, ketika kita berpikir tentang Semangat yang mudah menular, begitu juga yang terjadi pada Kebencian.
She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.
I can clap with one hand.
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.
I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.
When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.
Berani lihat? Berani bayangkan? bagaimana diri kalian yang telah hancur dikoyak kesedihan itu berwujud.. berani bayangkan? Wajah lelah penuh luka yang telah habis disayati sembilu itu berupa. Melihat dirimu mati setiap malam untuk terlahir kembali es...
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.
I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.