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" When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland. "

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" 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. "

Ed Kowalczyk

School

Beginning

Early

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

" 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. "

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

Ed Kowalczyk

Look

You

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

Ed Kowalczyk

Lyrics

Songs

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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?' "

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

Ed Kowalczyk

Life

Inspiration

" 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. "

" Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom. "

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

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

" I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing. "

" Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When we were starting out as a band, I was addicted to college radio. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "