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The mustache - I was never happy with the fullness of it. I was a bit too young. Maybe I'll bring it back in my mid-thirties.
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People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.
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I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.
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I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.
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'It's something that you dream about, but Milli Vanilli got a Grammy. So it's hard to decide whether you're happy or not.'
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For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family. They're the nicest people I know.' So when I see these statistics that it's the most hated religion, I don't know where they're getting that from.
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I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.
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For me it's more of a spiritual thing, but I don't want to give it away because it will change how people react to the song...
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'Barack Obama being elected. I think about how… um… how my sons will grow up only knowing a black President. Wells with tears I can’t explain how that’s changed America. There’s an optimism now that wasn’t there for black people.'
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Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.
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I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.
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I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. So those guys are making the money and making the videos.
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A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring, we had a week off. I have a problem with flying, so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads...
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I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.
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I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.
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We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.
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I was always an album guy, not a greatest hits kind of guy, not so much a radio guy. I'm not saying one is better than the other but... It was like reading a novel but shorter than that. You go into a world for an hour and you absorb yourself into it rather than just passively listening and flipping through this and that.
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I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'
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Music makes my blood flow. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a favorite song. I just want to be the messenger.
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The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
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I have the same thing every day. I find it comforting. I have a banana, but I can never eat the whole banana. And I'll drink a couple of Actimels. And some kind of cereal with almond milk. And then after that, I have a Coke.
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I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'
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I'm not a big fan of cold weather; that's why I moved to Vegas! Dave Keuning Weather Vegas Big Big Fan Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal. Dave Keuning You I Can Vegas Tell That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that. Dave Keuning Singing Perfect Like Knowing I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me. Dave Keuning Love Music Me You Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous. Dave Keuning Dangerous Band Themselves Gonna I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
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That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.
