 The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. |
| The release date is just one day, but the record is forever. |
| You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it. |
| In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it. |
| I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter. |
| Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. |
| My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. |
| The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. |
| No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. |
| From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life. |
| My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. |
| This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for. |
| If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it. |
| It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company. |
| Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. |
| The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. |
| I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly. |
| I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. |
| I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost. |
| I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. |
