Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I’ve always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
It’s fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There’s something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
I don’t question our exsistence, I just question our modern needs.
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
It’s understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions rather than deny them.
I’d like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn’t being hijacked by computer technology. There’s no reason there can’t be a paper trail on those machines.
Dream the dreams of other men, you’ll be no ones rival.
I realized in the early days I just didn’t edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
I’m not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It’s tremendous what Bono does. I don’t know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don’t think many people could.
If people don’t like what I’m doing I really don’t have time to hear it. I’m doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.
Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he’ll get the girl he’ll only get the mechanic.
Caffeine. The gateway drug.
I’m an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
There’s a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn’t us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.
So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
If it’s a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I’ll admit that if it’s crap music, I hope they won’t and it’ll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
I don’t work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.
I don’t trust anyone, especially when they say something good.