Musician Quotes

I'm not a betting man.

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

I am the sum total of everything that I have experienced musically.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.

I wanted to be a jockey.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

I don't need any more awards.

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.