Musician Quotes

I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best.

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.

I loved Herman's Head. And it was a great experience.

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.

I have a lot of female fans.

I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy.

I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support.

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.