In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.
I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.
I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.
Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.
I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.
I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.
Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.
I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for years in the studio, when I hear a No Age record or when I hear Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first EP or when I hear DRI or really early punk stuff, it's just so powerful, so raw - and I know how hard that is to create. It's very deceptive. It's like a Dardenne brothers film - it seems like just a handheld camera following some people around in a trailer park, but it's incredibly difficult to do that.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. . . . Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science. . . is based on common sense. " Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.