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To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
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We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.
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I always want to rock.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
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It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
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There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
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I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
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I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played...
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I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
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Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
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You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.
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I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
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Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.
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I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
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I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?