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

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" What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence. "

" As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume! "

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

" 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 have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing. "

" I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people. "

" Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. "

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

" Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry. "

" We've been slighted in the press for being heartfelt. "

" You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something. "

" I would have to recommend the chorus of 'Lightning Crashes' for just about everyone that needs a little something, a little comeback. "

" 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. "