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I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
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America is incredibly professional and corporate.
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Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
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My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'
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Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
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To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
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We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
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I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
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I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
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When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
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Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
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The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.
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My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
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You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.
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America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.
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Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
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Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.
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You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.
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I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
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You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
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There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.
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Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.