Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that.
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.
You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they mean exactly the opposite of what they are written down. There are endless possibilities which I think Diamanda Galás is doing already. She turns everything upside down by the way she sings it. She makes you feel nauseous or horrified or ridiculous just by her voice. I think that's an incredible power.
I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.
These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well. . . . . . I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.