Ed Kowalczyk Quotes
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Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.
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If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.
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I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.
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With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child.
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If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done.
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Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.
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To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
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I think 'cool' is overrated.
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What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence.
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We've always been a band that questions things.
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When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.
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Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want to exclude anyone.
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You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
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You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.
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I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas.
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The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one of the goals is to suggest that something is going on beyond what you can see.
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As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!
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Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.
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The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.
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We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.
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Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.
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Life takes turns. There are forks in the road.
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We really want the whole world to know about Live and to experience us.
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I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?'