Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
ADAM YOUNGWriting music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
ADAM YOUNGStay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise.
ADAM YOUNGPort Blue’ is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel.”
ADAM YOUNGAnd show up in a place I never thought I’d ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I’d written so far away. To me, that’s so surreal.
ADAM YOUNGThere is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
ADAM YOUNGAs I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is
ADAM YOUNGThe warlords–of war and peace–destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
ADAM YOUNGSo for me it’s very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that’s usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs.
ADAM YOUNGCultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.
ADAM YOUNGTheir stunned silence was always very reassuring.
ADAM YOUNGTime. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.
ADAM YOUNGUnearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale.
ADAM YOUNGAnd a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?”
ADAM YOUNGTie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I’ll wrench them away,then I’ll take my leave & I won’t even look back
ADAM YOUNGWhen I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, “a pirate.”
ADAM YOUNGLife isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.
ADAM YOUNG