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" 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! "

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" With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Child

Humanity

" Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could. "

" One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time. "

" It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Artist

Feeling

" I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing. "

" Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Life

Inspiration

" We really want the whole world to know about Live and to experience us. "

Ed Kowalczyk

World

Live

" Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it. "

" 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. "

" The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one of the goals is to suggest that something is going on beyond what you can see. "

" We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Music

Trying

" 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. "

" Until you solve problems like fear individually, resolve why individuals feel the need to believe in whatever, there's really no point in organizations, in things that turn the world into a concept rather than an individual fact. "

" We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Kind

Never

" We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know? "

" I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Long

Never

" We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt. "

" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Never

Matter

" I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route. "

" The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it. "

" Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom. "

" With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back. "

" When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are. "

" I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing. "

" We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes. "

" 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?' "

" What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence. "