I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. |
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time. |
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. |
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. |
Take a walk on the wild side. |
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible. |
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album. |
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play. |
I tried to give up drugs by drinking. |
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. |
My God is rock'n'roll. |
The music business doesn't interest me anymore. |
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. |
I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything. |
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff. |
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother. |
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. |
In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle. |
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. |
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. |