Zitat des Tages über Joni Mitchell:
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece that men wear every day, and it's something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it's on the street or going to an awards ceremony.
I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.
My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.
I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.
I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.
The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
I am the audience. I want to observe people. Even when I'm playing drums onstage, I'm watching people. I'm looking at them and their faces and their T-shirts and their signs. And travelling by motorcycle, especially, the world is just coming at me.
It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.
I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.
We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
I know why I'm here. I know why I was placed in music, and it's not by coincidence.
I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.
It's hard to consider myself one when a lot of my fans and people who are calling me a role model are people my age and sometimes older than me. I feel like they're at the same walk of life that I'm in right now, and they can probably teach me things about life, too.
Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.
There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.
Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.
I'm against spending money to record.
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
When l write my own stuff, that's my only alone time. From wake-up to going to bed, I'm with someone. I don't like to do anything alone. I guess it's insecurity. When I travel, I won't go anywhere without people to go do something. I'm happier around people; the more people the better.
I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not here for anybody else.
I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.
