Musician Quotes

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we h

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

I've always been a direct guy.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.