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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Influence

Divided

City

" Life takes turns. There are forks in the road. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could. "

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

" We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once - major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV. "

" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Artist

Feeling

" 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. "

" I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Long

Never

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

" 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. "

" I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things. "

" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Never

Matter

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

Ed Kowalczyk

World

Live

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

" When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are. "

" I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?' "

" 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 love Peter Gabriel, and I've come so close to working with him a few times. We were on a movie soundtrack together, but we didn't actually write together. "

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

" I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing. "

" I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Want

Thinking

" It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular. "

" With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Child

Humanity