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" I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point where you start to question the absolutes that are supposedly out there, and you realize that there simply are no absolutes. "

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" I think I'm most proud of the fact that I was able to overcome the insecurities that were going to keep me from living my dream, which was just learning to turn off those little voices in your head that tell you you're not capable of doing something. "

Myles Kennedy

Dream

Learning

" From the artist's standpoint, are you getting more from streaming than you used to, prior to the days of the Internet? No - and I don't know if those days are ever going to come back - but at least, technically speaking, it's the legal way to do it. "

" I think I've gradually learned to become more of a frontman than I was initially. I mean, when I first started, especially playing with Alter Bridge, you know, I really considered myself more a guitar player who sang. "

" I'm in a lower register because I'm not trying to shout out over a wall of amps. Singing lower sounded very pleasing to my ear, and it made it easier for me to emote. "

" I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint. "

" That's what I love more than anything, just creating. "

Myles Kennedy

Love

Anything

" What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction. "

" I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest! "

" I really enjoy the moments with Alter Bridge where I can step out and play lead and have fun. "

" Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven't really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things. "

" When I was a kid and listening to Zeppelin and Guns N' Roses, if someone had told me that there would come a time, and I would play some of those songs with those people, I would never have believed it. "

" It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself. "

Myles Kennedy

Yourself

Stand Up

" 'Apocalyptic Love,' that is pretty from the hip in the sense that, one day, Slash and I were talking - I think it was Slash and I - about the end of the world and the Mayan calendar and all that crazy stuff. "

" Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely. "

" I realized, year of the tiger was 1974, which was the year my father passed away when I was a kid... My family, at that point, were Christian Scientists. So basically, this woman Mary Baker Eddy started this in the 1800s, and the premise is that you don't go to doctors. You believe that God is gonna heal you. "

" I don't feel like I really hit puberty until I was almost 17. I'd go to dinner with my family, and I'm 15 or 16 years old, and the waiter was still giving me the children's menu. "

" There's a song called 'Slip To The Void,' which is fairly long and has more of an epic approach. And I guess for lack of a better term some people might throw the progressive tag on it. I don't know if it necessarily falls into that - a few people have brought that up who have heard it. "

" The guitar saved me from a life of crime as a teenager. "

Myles Kennedy

Life

Saved

" Not playing guitar on 'World On Fire' gave me additional time to fine-tune lyrics and melodies, which improved the songs in the end. I'm very happy with how it turned out. "

" Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems to continue regardless of what popular culture deems as the 'cool thing.' "

" My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith. "

" There's a warmth, obviously, with vinyl that you just don't get with CDs. "

" I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist. "

" Everything I ever learned about rock, I learned from Led Zeppelin. "

" I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on. "

" A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written. "

" I think what I've learned to do is not look inward as much. "

" The journey to the completion of 'Year Of The Tiger' was very interesting and full of a lot of trial and error. "

" I love playing with Slash, and the chemistry I have with the rest of the guys in his band is fantastic. "

" I think that's my goal as time goes on, is to just try and pay it forward. "