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" I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Always
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People
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" To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool. "
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" You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday. "
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" 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. "
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" We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence. "
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" I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll. "
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" Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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?' "
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" 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. "
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" We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with. "
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" When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland. "
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" I've found lyrics in songs that always center me. "
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Lyrics
Songs
Me
" 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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" Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about. "
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" 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. "
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School
Beginning
Early
" I think 'cool' is overrated. "
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" We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once - major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV. "
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Radio
" 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. "
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" We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt. "
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" Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much. "
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" Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever. "
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Whatever
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" If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done. "
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" Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.' "
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" 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. "
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" I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question. "
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