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I've been flyin' down the road,And I've been starvin' to be alone,Independent from the scene that I've known.
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When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
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We've put the word out for a lot of our friends in Hawaii, but we're not going to spoil the surprise
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To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
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It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand
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I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms
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I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.
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I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.
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Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.
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One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
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What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought: 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tour
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I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
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It was an opportunity to spend some time together, have some fun to create some music and an opportunity for Kenny and me to sit down and do some things we wanted to do, ... The time was right and here we are.
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Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.
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I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
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The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.
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I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
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Shelter me from the powderAnd the fingerCover me with the thoughtThat pulled the triggerThink of meAs one you'd never figuredWould fade away so youngWith so much left undone.
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I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.
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Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross
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The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
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The economy was getting so bad, I had to lay myself off.
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People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.
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In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.