I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it’s kind of like that’s never really been my bag. Probably because I’m too shy.
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I’m always looking to rock out. But it isn’t really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good.
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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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I don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.
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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.
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I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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I don’t want to do children’s music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids – like when I’m putting them to bed.
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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”
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