Quotes About Identity

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

You can't change the music of your soul.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Whatever you believe, you become.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

Music was the voice I didn't have.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.