Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.
I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish. ' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.
Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.
I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.