Daisy Jones & The Six Quotes
"We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones."
"You’ve got a rich white girl, growing up in L.A. She’s gorgeous—even as a child."
"But she has no one. No siblings, no extended family in Los Angeles."
"She’s born with all the money in the world, access to whatever she wants—artists, drugs, clubs—anything and everything at her disposal."
"But she’s actually a very gregarious, outgoing kid—Daisy would often ask to get her hair cut just because she loved her hairdresser."
"So I bummed a cigarette from this roadie outside the Whisky a Go Go one night—the first time I’d ever had one and I tried to pretend I did it all the time."
"I learned about sex and love the hard way. That men will take what they want and feel no debt, that some people only want one piece of you."
"If the rest of the world was silver, Daisy was gold."
"Diet pills were an easy choice. It didn’t even feel like a choice."
"I wasn’t really willing to be vulnerable with anybody at that point. I had felt too much vulnerability too young. I didn’t want to do it anymore."
"I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story."
"Imagine achieving your wildest dream and feeling empty inside."
"You don’t have to have a great voice to be a singer if your songs are good enough."
"The biggest thing your songs have going for them is that you might sing them."
"L.A. is full of men just waiting for some naïve girl to believe their bullshit."
"I didn’t care about anything but songwriting."
"You know you’re in a time of your life you’ll remember forever."
"It’s us, forever and always. Don’t go forgetting that again, all right?"
"I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it’s not faith, right?"
"Someone who insists on the perfect conditions to make art isn't an artist. They're an asshole."
"Being given things versus earning them... I didn’t know how important it is for your soul to earn them."
"The music wasn’t there yet but…you knew Daisy Jones was heading somewhere. Her moment was coming."
"Rock ’n’ roll is about getting it on with a girl for the first time. Not about making love to your wife."
"I wore what I wanted when I wanted. I did what I wanted with who I wanted. And if somebody didn’t like it, screw ’em."
"Drugs will have you sleeping with some real jerks."
"When you’re in a situation like that, when you have a man looming over you, it’s as if every decision you made to lead to that moment...flashes before your eyes."
"I thought, 'It might be nice to know this Billy.' But then it was over. Just one second of realness from him and then, poof, gone the way it came."
"Nothing was supposed to come before the music. Our job was to go out there and play for the audience. No matter what personal shit was going on."
"It is what I have always loved about music. Not the sounds or the crowds or the good times as much as the words—the emotions, and the stories, the truth—that you can let flow right out of your mouth."
"People say that life keeps moving, but they don’t mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you. Just for you and your girl. The world stops spinning and just lets you two lie there."
"You know how sometimes people will describe other people and say they make you feel like you’re the only one in the room? Billy and Daisy could both do that."
"But onstage he looked like there was no place he’d rather be than standing right there with you."
"When someone’s presence gives you energy, when it riles up something in you—the way Daisy did for me—you can turn that energy into lust or love or hate. I felt most comfortable hating her. It was my only choice."
"If you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption."
"The Chosen ones never know they are chosen. They think everyone gets a gold carpet rolled out for them."
"Let me tell you this. Don’t ever doubt Daisy Jones."
"You can’t give seven people a say in the words. Somebody had to take charge and control the process."
"I thought maybe everyone could read it all and we could discuss it from there."
"If it wasn’t for Camila, I think I’d still be that way. I think I would have made all my own nightmares come true."
"It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams."
"I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better."
"It’s not drugs that make you look old, it’s sobering up."
"You want to know your problem? You think you’re a poet but other than talking about getting high, you don’t have anything to say."
"I knew it was gonna be huge. I really think, even then, I knew."
"My instincts said to run toward the chaos. And my better brain sent me home to my woman."
"If you were a cat, your screech would bring every cat running to you."
"Everybody is good at something. I was good at motherhood."
"When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? That’s what Daisy did, with that song."
"Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch."
"When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred."
"But music is never about music. If it was, we’d be writing songs about guitars. But we don’t. We write songs about women."
"Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time."
"You never know what kind of crazy good shit is around the corner."
"You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth."
"I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didn’t know it was supposed to be peace."
"When you’re a part of something as big as that album ended up being…you want to know if you were an integral part. You want to believe they couldn’t have done it without you."
"All bands have trouble with this stuff. You know how hard it is to get this many people to agree on anything this subjective?"
"People like it when you make them sad, I think. But people hate it when you leave them sad. Great albums have to be roller coasters that end on top. You gotta leave people with a little bit of hope."
"The subtext isn’t 'My body is for you.' The subtext is 'I do what I want.'"
"For every moment of your life, in 1978, Aurora could play in the background."
"It's about the struggle that I live almost every day to not do something stupid."
"With hope. That's all I could do, was just hope."
"When people asked for my autograph, I used to write, 'Stay Solid, Daisy J.'"
"I wanted real life, for once. Anything real."
"If a friend lied to me the way I lie to myself, I’d say, 'You’re a shitty friend.'"
"Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive."
"No matter who you choose to go down the road with, you’re gonna get hurt. That’s just the nature of caring about someone."
"You can justify anything. If you’re narcissistic enough to believe that the universe conspires for and against you—which we all are, deep down—then you can convince yourself you’re getting signs about anything and everything."
"You think that tragedy means that the world is over but you realize the world is never over. It’s just never over. Nothing will end it."
"Denial is like an old blanket. I loved to get under that thing and curl up and sleep."
"You can't love someone back to health and you can't hate someone back to health and no matter how right you are about something, it doesn't mean they will change their mind."
"Knowing you did the right thing doesn’t mean you’re happy about it."
"Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding."
"The ones who never loved you enough come to you when you can't sleep."
"It’s the ones who never loved you enough that come to you when you can’t sleep."
"You always wonder what the future might have held and you’ll never know."
"I’ve been sober since July 17, 1979. And when I left the facility, I changed my life."
"That’s really all I have to contribute. I’m nearing seventy but I’m still looking forward, okay? I’m not looking back."
"Maybe if I was of the younger generation, marriage would have been more attractive to me."
"I wanted to be a rock star. And then I wanted to live alone. In a house in the mountains. And that’s what I’ve done."
"She was an incredible woman. She was the greatest thing that ever happened to me."
"You know, I didn’t talk to you very much about all of this when you were growing up. Never wanted to bog you down with my own issues, my own stories."