To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.
Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
Don't believe everything you see on VH1.
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.
I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.