Could you be loved and be loved?
EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH
So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.
I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.
Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.
I think that I know the value of a dollar.
If you aint like me, you aint gotta like me.
Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.
Is forever longer than always?
But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.
I embrace everybody for who and what they are.
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.
I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that's just because I'm a Scorpio. Now I'm more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.
Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.
Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.
My thoughts will echo your name until I see you again.
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.
The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.
So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in
Rather be dead than cool.
We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.
I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.
all i want...is mac and cheese
Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.
The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.
, and they could name a handful.
If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy.
I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.
In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.
I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.
How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again
I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
The third always speaks the unspeakable words.
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the backI couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean
The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay
I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.
It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.
In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.
If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.
We gave up everything just to sit at your table.
