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I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.
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I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
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I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend
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I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.
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The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.
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Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
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My moral standing is lying down.
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I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.
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Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.
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It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.
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Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
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Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
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I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
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I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.
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It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.
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I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.
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