Ed O'Brien Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I like music a lot.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
