I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed lik...
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
If I could control tomorrow's haze,The darkened shore wouldn't bother me,If I can't control the web we weave,My life will be lost in the fallen leaves...
Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.
It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a ple...
When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepare...
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you alwa...
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it'...
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.