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There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.

Ian Astbury

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Ian Astbury
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 14
Guitarist
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Ian Robert Astbury
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I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.
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I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.
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If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.
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I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.
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I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock it out and it's in my phone and I can transfer it to my computer and go into the studio and bring it up.
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I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!
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I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.
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I'm much more for style and not trend-driven.
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Don't let anyone dictate what you should and shouldn't wear. Do what you want. Who cares?
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Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.
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I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.
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I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.
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We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.
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I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.
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Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.
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I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.
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