There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
You will only be great at the things you love to do.Don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.
That’s one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.
Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.
It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I wrote a song.’
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!
If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.
There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.