Band Quotes
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My family have always kept my feet well and truly on the ground. I was very lucky that a lot of the other band members got married and had kids at the same time, so there was a lot of normality around.
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There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.
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I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.
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I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.
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I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.
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Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.
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A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
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Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.
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Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
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Even when the band got back together in 2008, New Kids fans knew I was gay. Everyone did.
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With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.
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I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?
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There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.
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When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.
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I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find making a play amazing, and working with my band and scoring things... it's all really cool. I'm just a glutton for experience, really.
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To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.
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With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.
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Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.
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I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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I have some things that I need to deal with and address right now and so I have decided to leave Maroon 5. During this time, I do not want to be a distraction to my bandmates. I wish them the absolute best.
