 I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself. |
| I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side. |
| I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts. |
| It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars. |
| For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy. |
| We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this. Topics: Computer |
| I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy. |
| I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary. |
| I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. |
| Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth. |
| I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing? |
| I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat. |
| The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist. |
| The image is an image. |
| If I were white, I'd get less criticism. |
| I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now. |
| Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised. |
| God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play. |
| A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. |
| I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together. |
