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" I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.' "

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" We have a good time and try not to kill each other. "

" Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case. "

" I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog. "

" We've always been proud of what we've done. "

" In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better. "

" A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you. "

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" Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame. "

" Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long. "

" I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record. "

" Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up. "

" What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool. "

" Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it. "

" Our songs all carry the same way. "

" It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years. "

" There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums. "

" The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning. "

" You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond. "

" If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else. "

" We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do. "

" It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors. "

" I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming. "

" It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.' "

" What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band. "

" No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.' "

" Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson. "

" The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways. "

" Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those. "

" I'm a proud family man. "

" But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music. "