Quotes About Energy

Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can play them.

The energy between all the girls - we were hysterical together. That energy could go really bad and it could be so hateful and horrible, and then it could go really good and we'd write really good songs.

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.

Boomer Sooner!

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

It sounds very hippy, I'm sorry, but like if you put something out to the world, you'll get the same thing back plus more.

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.

Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you may have it when you're 17 or when you're 67.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Little moments of excitement shape the sound of a record. You don't have anything, and then you start to have little parts that give you the energy to move forward because you start to see something.

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not really about if every sound is correct; it's more the energy - if it hits you in some way, it doesn't really matter to me if it's not perfect. I'm still very excited while hunting for songs.

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

I focus all the way on the club. That's why my music sounds the way it does, with the 808, heavy kicks. Every aspect of it is about the club, so I don't really care about the person who's listening on an iPod.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.