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" I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Roll
Feel
Part
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" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Book
Faith
Christian
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Love
Intelligence
Care
" There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Green
Think
Day
" Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Find
Wrong
Things
" You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Look
You
Like
" To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool. "
Ed Kowalczyk
You
Cool
Kind
" I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday. "
Ed Kowalczyk
I Am
Her
Voice
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Want
Me
Thinking
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Together
Few
Love
" We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Small
Music
Small Town
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Music
Practice
Think
" I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Always
Thought
People
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Emotional
Goals
Place
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Important
Humanity
Great
" I've found lyrics in songs that always center me. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Lyrics
Songs
Me
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Broken
Love
Opportunity
" I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Blessed
I Am
Say
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Think
Band
Out
" Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Experience
Find
Place
" 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? "
Ed Kowalczyk
Alone
You
Art
" 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
Me
" Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Form
Simplest
Catalyst
" If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Never
Sit
Live
" I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Long
Me
Never
" Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Freedom
Spiritual
Music
" I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Always
Closing
Door
" I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Matter
Finding
Doing
" Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want to exclude anyone. "
Ed Kowalczyk
People
Yourself
You
" You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Living
Change
Music
" 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. "
Ed Kowalczyk
Music
Band
People