"I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the..."
"I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round."
"I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll."
"I didn't have a lot to do with the first record."
"I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy."
"Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun."
"I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up."
"I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money."
"In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else."
"Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act."
"I'm a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it's not that weird. It's not like some obscure Sonic Youth record or something. We don't take it quite that far. But what we do like are crescendos, and we do like when a song catches you off guard and it gives you the chills up and down your arms."
"I don't think there will ever be a GG box set."
"I'm definitely looking forward to DJing in Scotland again. There's always fun and a great party vibe."
"When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts."
"People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated."
"I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it."
"I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things."
"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."
"I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music."
"Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work."
"I tried gimmicky stuff 'cause I wanted to get some attention, and remember, you know, in the rap world Seattle was a cave. There was no light."
"Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing."
"I think imagination can be an incredibly powerful tool and it can help you get more confidence."
"That Cornell show that - that people talk about, I can't remember that specifically. It didn't stand out for me on that tour. The whole tour was like that for me."
"By the time I was 12, I was starting my high school stuff in home schooling."
"I know deep down I'm a star."
