Annie Quotes

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Freedom is never very safe.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

You can go as far as you want to go.

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

I have a lot to be grateful for.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

I want to be true to who I am.

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.