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" I am constantly amazed at their support over the years. "
Mike McCready
Am
Amazed
I Am
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" At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us. "
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Stage
Know
Possible
" I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music. "
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Music
Still
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" Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be. "
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" I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years. "
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Love
Say
Right
" At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time. "
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Choices
Right
Time
" I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. "
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Relationship
" I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone. "
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Comfort Zone
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" When you're really young, dating girls, and trying to explain Kiss, they just look at you like you're kind of crazy. I think they got so big in the Seventies and were such a phenomenon - they did the 'Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park' movie, the solo records - some people only know the merchandising stuff. "
Mike McCready
Know
Dating
Kiss
" It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme. "
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Band
You
See
" I've met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn's. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing: to hear other people's attitudes on how they deal with their disease and how they stay positive. "
Mike McCready
New
Healing
People
" I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea. "
Mike McCready
Pain
Life
Lived
" But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it. "
Mike McCready
Up
Go
Go For It
" We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction. "
Mike McCready
Things
Musically
Want
" I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music. "
Mike McCready
Still
Music
Feel
" And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited. "
Mike McCready
New Things
Own
New
" It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them. "
Mike McCready
Fan
Them
Loyal
" I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon. "
Mike McCready
About
Colon
Disease
" A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys. "
Mike McCready
Sky
Will
Walking
" My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic. "
Mike McCready
Because
Favorite
Go
" Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle. "
Mike McCready
Seattle
Darkness
Life
" It's always push and pull with a record company. "
Mike McCready
Always
Company
Pull
" Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business. "
Mike McCready
Down
Kind
Business
" I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!' "
Mike McCready
Getting Old
Classic
Rock