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" All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it. "
Teeth
Me
Want
" All of my favorite artists who inspired me were never afraid to be uncool and never afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves - no matter how much flak they took for it. "
Never
Matter
Me
" Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence happening, when there's real love happening, there's a sense of responsibility: Hey, we've got to take care of this place and each other. "
Love
Intelligence
Care
" Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us. "
Important
Humanity
Great
" As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume! "
Musicians
Band
Good
" Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people. "
Find
Wrong
Things
" Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied. "
Trying
Music
People
" From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school. "
School
Beginning
Early
" I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas. "
Always
Thought
People
" I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday. "
I Am
Her
Voice
" I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives. "
People
Rock And Roll
Impact
" I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question. "
Spark
Music
Thought
" I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll. "
Roll
Feel
Part
" If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done. "
Never
Sit
Live
" If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything. "
Mean
Message
Behind
" I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a big influence on me. "
Influence
Divided
City
" I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing. "
Blessed
I Am
Say
" I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics. "
Passion
Nor
Understanding
" I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?' "
End
You
Music
" I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really. "
Older
Myself
Kind
" I'll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats. "
Concert
Forget
Never Forget
" I love Peter Gabriel, and I've come so close to working with him a few times. We were on a movie soundtrack together, but we didn't actually write together. "
Together
Few
Love
" Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. "
Experience
Find
Place
" I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me. "
Want
Me
Thinking
" I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song. "
Long
Me
Never
" I think 'cool' is overrated. "
Think
I Think
Cool
" I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve. "
Think
Band
Out
" I think the message of the Live/Counting Crows tour is that, aside from what's going on trendwise, if you dig a little, you can always find something to inspire you. "
You
Going
Always
" I took a page out of the U2 book. They've always had a universal approach. Nobody doubts they're Christian, but there's an open door for everybody in any faith to consume the music at any level. "
Book
Faith
Christian
" It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do? "
My Life
People
Art
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