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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I think 'cool' is overrated.
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Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.
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We've always been a band that questions things.
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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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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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You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
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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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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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You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.
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Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.
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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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With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.
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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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I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
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Life takes turns. There are forks in the road.
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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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Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.
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Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us.