I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.
For the guys who feel like they are glued to one position or one sport, don't do it man, do whatever you want to do.
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.
Individual participation in the stock market through 401(k)s helped fuel the go-go days of Wall Street in the 1980s and birthed asset management juggernauts like Fidelity, Vanguard, Pimco, BlackRock, and dozens of others.
There should be a lot of bands like the Go-Go's out there, but there aren't.
I would say the Go-Go's are pretty iconic but don't know if I'd refer to myself like that.
The Go-Go's were like my first babies.
I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it's all about scoring goals.
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.
In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.
With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
It's a big thing in my music to highlight being human - being emotional and powerful, like a goddess.
Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.
