Fashion goes round in circles.
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.
You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.
You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.
There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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