Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.Collection: Rocks
Think I'll roll another number for the roadCollection: Weed
This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.Collection: Tree
Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.Collection: Dream
It's gotta be fun, if it's not fun it's not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That's the mission of Pono.Collection: Music
Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.Collection: Rocks
I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.Collection: Talking
Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.Collection: Art
I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.Collection: People
We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.Collection: Records
We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.Collection: People
You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.Collection: Mistake
It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.Collection: Stupid
Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.Collection: Mother
Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.Collection: Moving
Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communitiesCollection: Government
If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.Collection: Swimming
You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.Collection: Honesty
Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.Collection: Baby
Bad news is just an excuse.Collection: Philosophy
If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.Collection: Guitar
Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.Collection: Guitar
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.Collection: Summer
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.Collection: Degenerates
There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.Collection: Song
Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.Collection: Rock And Roll
We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.Collection: Responsible
I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.Collection: Thinking
It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.Collection: Looks
Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.Collection: Song
You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.Collection: Song
I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.Collection: Looks
I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeanceCollection: Vengeance
You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.Collection: Shirts
There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting highCollection: Hippie
I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.Collection: Song
Keep it moving. Don't hoard. Money's no good, get rid of it. Turn it into people doing things. Turn it into jobs. Turn it into happiness...The more people I employ, the happier I am - that means my money's goin' into other people's lives, and if I can give 'em something to create that they can be happy with, that's great.Collection: Jobs
Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a GrammyCollection: Funny
I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.Collection: Ideas
Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.Collection: Morning
I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.Collection: Self
It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my handCollection: Truth
Welfare mothers make better lovers.Collection: Mother
Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.Collection: Song
Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.Collection: Beach
Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.Collection: Men
And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.Collection: Taken
What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.Collection: Beauty