American Quotes

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.

What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

I love bummer songs.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

I just rediscovered my guitar.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.