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" When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat. "

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" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Music

Band

Back

" 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. "

" Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want to exclude anyone. "

" 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. "

" To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Kind

Never

" I've found lyrics in songs that always center me. "

Ed Kowalczyk

Lyrics

Songs

" 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

" Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it. "

" The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it. "

" I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Ed Kowalczyk

Look

You

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

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

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

Ed Kowalczyk

Music

Trying

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

" 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 been slighted in the press for being heartfelt. "

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

" 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. "