Musician Quotes

What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.