Jonny Hawkins Quotes

United States, Singer-Songwriter
October 28, 1986

Long-time drummer for the hard rock outfit Nothing More who became the group's frontman and lead vocalist to help stabilize the core lineup of the band. The group's first album with him as lead singer was The Few Not Fleeting.

Sometimes, our brains just don't work that way. You see these people who have the world at their fingertips, and all the success you can imagine, but they still are depressed. That's kind of what that song is about: the American demons. Because even if you are the poorest American, you still are better off than a lot of areas in the world.

Jonny Hawkins
- World
- Success
- Song
I've noticed that there are so many times when things seem negative on the surface, but when you look back with a far enough lens and enough time between you and that event, it usually works out for the best in terms of where you need to go in your life and who you need to become as a person. If you view life like that, it really turns out to be that way.

Jonny Hawkins
- Life
- Negative
- Surface

All the excitement had worn off - all the veneer to the relationship - and the reality was setting in that we were just very different people with very different values at the end of the day. But we had such a history and also a friendship at the beginning of it, that it was very hard to know what to do with that truth.

Jonny Hawkins