I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.
No band is special, no player royalty.
Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.
I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.
You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.
My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.
But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band. . . I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.
Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.
If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.
Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.
I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when. . . So, yeah, for the first, Mass Romantic, I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.