I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
BLACK FRANCISI listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”
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Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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I think if everyone agrees that that’s the goal then it doesn’t matter who’s the band and it doesn’t matter who’s the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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