Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
Category: sad
I mean, that’s a sad day in America when you’re recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.
We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do.
People are so codified – it’s sad.
I’ve got so much to do, I don’t have time to sit down and be sad.
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that’s real. Mistreatment of other people because ‘I’m better than you are’ is such a sad part of the world.
It’s a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late ’70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn’t feel the need to question the other person’s character.
It was sad when Sid Vicious died… I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
‘The Taxi Ride,’ from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I’m consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that’s a sad song.