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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
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This Life is More than Just a read through.
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I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.
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I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.
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I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'
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Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
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I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
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She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
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I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'
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You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'
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Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
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Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
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Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.
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I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.
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Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.
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I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.
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Every true artist is at war with the world.
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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
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It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
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Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.
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I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.