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Born: 1967-03-17
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
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I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Tags: Idol, Problem, Proper


Tags: Changed, Generation, Taken


Tags: Car, Single, Sports

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Tags: Fear, Means, Wrong


Tags: Idealism, Music, Weird

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

Tags: Character, Makes, Mind

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Tags: Good, Hope, Love

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

Tags: Days, Forgotten

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

Tags: Great, Love, Rock

All I can go on is my own value system.

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Tags: Answer, Artists, Best

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Tags: Someone, Success, Work

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Tags: Great, Perfect, Thought


Tags: Close, Company, Protest

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

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I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

Tags: Behind, Fear, Trust

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

Tags: Anymore, Cartoon, Character

I don't want to be 25 again.

Tags: Again

I don't want to be a dead hero.

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Tags: Emotion, House, Love


Tags: Cultural, Death, Suburbs


Tags: Anybody, Big, Mouth

I like my home and I like the nature.

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I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

Tags: Basically, Done, Generation

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

Tags: Mean, Whatever, Word

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Tags: City, Often, Property
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I realize I'm a mirror.

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I still believe in my country.

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I tend to be reactionary.

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Tags: Prepared, Rock, Roll

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

Tags: Days, Sense, Working

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Tags: Another, Away, Until

I want people to see me happy.

Tags: Happy

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

Tags: Baptized, Brought, Catholic


Tags: Cool, Rocking, Trying

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

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I work differently than most people.

Tags: Work


Tags: Between, Point, Trying

I'm a bit weird.

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I'm a green-tea guy.

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I'm a really honest person.

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Tags: Says, Sick, Valuable


Tags: Class, Family, Middle

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

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I'm not interested in pop art.

Tags: Art, Interested, Pop


Tags: Life, Means, Music


Tags: Character, Crippled, Weird


Tags: America, Hard, Seen

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

Tags: Celebrity, Fit, Status

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

Tags: Family, Life, Songs

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

Tags: Between, Here, Won

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

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It just doesn't work without the others.

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It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

Tags: Formula, Simple, Song

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

Tags: Circus, Wrestling

Music is your guide.

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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

Tags: Father, Good, Guitar

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Tags: Complaints, She, Tell


Tags: Gonna, Music, Pleasure


Tags: Else, Guitar, Peace

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Tags: Mean, Rock, Success

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Tags: Culture, Lost, Rock

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

Tags: Original, Position, Return


Tags: Choice, Die, Wish


Tags: Business, Home, Music

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

Tags: Funny, Heart, Understand

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Tags: Guided, Strange


Tags: Cool, Older


Tags: Grand, Show, Suspicious


Tags: Competing, Days, Tedium

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Tags: Fun, Music, Put


Tags: Folly, God, Human


Tags: Feeling, Good, Music

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

Tags: Band, Running, Ultimately

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

Tags: Seen, Social, Time

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

Tags: Based, Rock, Roll

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Tags: Guy, Known, Supposed

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

Tags: Likes, Public, Try


Tags: Familiar, Reinvent, Tried

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

Tags: Actually, Music

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Tags: Audience, Deal, Music

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

Tags: Fun, Keep, Times

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Tags: Point, Sometimes, Work

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

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Tags: Christian, Focus, God

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

Tags: Basketball, Football, Someone


Tags: Good, Jesus, Life

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Tags: Again, Death, Life


Tags: Great, Impossible, Winning


Tags: Business, Thinking, Why

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Tags: Done, Mother, Real

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

Tags: Fans, Hit, Songs

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

Tags: Friends, Happens, Love

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

Tags: Blame, Give, Team

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

Tags: End, Here, Mean

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

Tags: Lost, Mean, Rock


Tags: Anyone, Knowing, Thinking

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

Tags: Focus, Hard, Trying

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

Tags: Listen, Memory, Old


Tags: Death, Music, Thinking