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Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.
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Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it was a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.
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I don't want to be a spokesperson.
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Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
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I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
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It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
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And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
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I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.
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I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
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Believe everything you read.
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I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.
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You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.
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If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.
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I won't eat anything green.
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I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.
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I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.
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A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
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In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.
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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.