Musician Quotes

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it.

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live.

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

I've always wanted to be a dad.

I've always been a procrastinator.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I write love songs!

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.