Musician Quotes

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.
It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.
It's not like I have all the answers.
Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.
The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record.
This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.
I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
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