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I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Sincerity is moral truth.

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.