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"Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on."
"I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience."
"Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you."
"Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent."
"I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking"
"The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers) no one sees! I go on tour.... (whispers) no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!"
"I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?"
"It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids."
"In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground."
"Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job."
"Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all."
"When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'"
"All my big heroes are literary, writers."
"Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down."
"I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious."
"I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless."
"I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me."
"Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock."
"If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings."
"I think it's important to have some documentation of the past."