Perspective Quotes

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Music's for grooving man, and music's not for puttin' yourself through bad changes, y'know? I mean, you don't have to go take anybody's shit, man, just to like music, y'know what I mean? You don't. So... so if you're getting' more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y'know, it's just music. Music's... music's s'posed to be different than that.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I don't feel connected to the whole vision of the record in the same way-it's got all these characters. The point of view of "Love Earth" and the point of view of "Break the Chain" are so different. It's not the same thing, but it is the same thing.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.

I like being the girl nobody can have.

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.

The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should be the opposite. You should feel like the people who are watching care about you. This is something we can try to give each other - the feeling that eyes signal support, not disdain.

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want to shake my ass, not 'cause "I'm dancing like a black girl!"

I didn't know that was me until we fucking cut the record! I just thought it was a guy who's got a weird English accent.

She wasn't a big impact on my life. It's just interesting to me how interested the world is about Taylor Swift. The reason I mention that is because if I had [properly] gone out with Taylor Swift, I would've been, 'F-king hell, I am not being Taylor Swift's boyfriend.' You know, 'F-k. That.' That's also a man thing, a demasculinating [sic], emasculating thing.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.