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" I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America. "

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" Musicals weren't on my radar. "

" I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it. "

" I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands. "

" I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one night, I'd want a hit. I want to hear the songs that brought them to that pinnacle of success. "

" We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going. "

" We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club. "

" There's no glamour in stupid mistakes. "

" I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world. "

" Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours. "

" We've been here since 1983 as a band. "

" Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals. "

" Why would we want to do an experimental album? That's just selfish. "

" I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song. "

" The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics. "

" The wild thing is that when I'm in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can't control anybody's destiny, so it's really unsettling. "

" I love my band. I love to play. I love to write. "

" We don't want to just be known for what we did. We want to be known for what we do and what we did. We've been highly productive since 2000 when 'Crush' came out. "

" We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs. "

" I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion. "

" When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it. "

" We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones. "

" When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free. "

" Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end. "

" I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city. "

" 'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world. "

" Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters. "

" Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future. "

" How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better. "

" My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano. "