“People want to be the first with the record, they want to be the first to know which songs are on the record, all that kind of stuff. So I like to just stall them a bit. Personally, I love the idea of an album that's completely new, that no one's heard any free downloads, any pre-record releases, all that kind of stuff, and nothing's been played on the radio. Totally virgin, you know, a sealed record. That's my ideal, but it's very hard to get anybody else to agree to do that.”
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“If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to confess and say what you want to say, whatever that is. Some songs just turn out as being more about me, and some are more through the eyes of other people, or third-person descriptions of people.”
“Over the years, I've had fairly benign record companies who gave me a lot of rope, but in spite of that, there's still restrictions and expectations. It's nice to be at the cottage-industry size, which I think is kind of the business model of the age anyway. It's the way to be. The Internet makes a lot of that possible. Having a loyal fan base is also very useful to keep me operating; people can find your website, and the venues that you're playing at, the merchandise you have for sale, all that kind of stuff. It's great to be able to reach the audience in a more direct way.”
“Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.”
“There are challenges in life, and it was a great challenge to have [became a member of Judas Preist]. The situation I was getting into, I knew what it stood for to me and to millions of people around the world. You get an opportunity like that, a chance to audition, you've got to do it. It worked out.”
“Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.”
“When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.”
“The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a city-hub for global Chinese who dis-identify with the People's Republic of China's construction of a Communist nationalist Chineseness, I called on the Chinese muse of writing to witness my emergence out of the academic woods.”
“The one difference I have noted is that it's made me more tender to my students and to young people particularly. It's made me mellower. I began to have a different perspective, because I may not be around much longer to be hassled by life's pressures.”
“In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.”
“Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!”
“My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.”
“I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”
“I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.”
“I experienced the judgement of a lot of people - and deservedly so.”
“You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.”
“I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.”
“I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.”
“I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.”
“With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.”