I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.
Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.
There are bands, like R. E. M. , who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.
I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.
When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the CD at the shows if you like the show. You may not listen to the CD, you might just throw it in the back of your car and let it warp in the sun. The main thing was you saw the song at the show.
Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.
There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"
Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.
You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.