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" I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives. "

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" If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything. "

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

" I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll. "

" 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. "

" 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 consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question. "

" 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. "

" I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 Web has incredible potential for an artist who keeps in touch with millions of people. "

" 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? "

" If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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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" The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things. "

" 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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" 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. "