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“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”
“My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.”
“If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.”
“We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.”
“What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.”
“When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.”
“I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.”
“But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.”
“When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”
“We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.”
“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”
“Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.”
“I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.”
“That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.”
“Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.”
“Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.”
“When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.”
“I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.”
“It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.”
“I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.”