Preference Quotes

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That's not what I'm trying to do. I love 'hood' music, but my talent is as a singer. My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'

I love Vetements, but I tend not to wear on stage 'cause the sleeves are too long and I can't play the guitar.

Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and I don't like Star Wars.

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.

I think of myself as a song-and-dance man.