I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that – I’m talking about the addiction part – but I’ve had a few experiences recently where you don’t blame the person anymore.
It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.
You mature as far as your understanding of what it’s going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don’t let frustration overtake you when you’re looking for change.
I’m not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I’ve always kind of been that way.
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.
If it’s a good cause, I’ll play just about anything.
If he can’t sleep, how will he ever dream?
It’s the ones without scars – those are the people you have to watch out for...
This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.
It’s not a bad time to be me.
Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It’s real easy to fall.
I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my age, but they were doing it.
If at noon you sit down and there’s just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn’t exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There’s something empowering about that.
The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
There’s been times when I’ve been standing in a line at a movie and someone’s hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn’t play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody’s trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.
If you’re anti-war it doesn’t mean you are ‘Pro’ one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you ‘Pro’ many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.
When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn’t.