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

" I'll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats. "

" 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. "

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

" Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it. "

" 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. "

" It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more. "

" I was buddies with Dennis Rodman back in the day; actually, I am still buddies with him, and so I have gone to a lot of games and always enjoyed it. "

" From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school. "

" The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things. "

" I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas. "

" I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives. "

" Until you solve problems like fear individually, resolve why individuals feel the need to believe in whatever, there's really no point in organizations, in things that turn the world into a concept rather than an individual fact. "

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

" Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much. "

" 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. "

" I think the message of the Live/Counting Crows tour is that, aside from what's going on trendwise, if you dig a little, you can always find something to inspire you. "

" 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. "

" It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do? "

" We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some 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! "

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

" All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it. "

" I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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