I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.
We really want the whole world to know about Live and to experience us.
We've always been a band that questions things.
Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.
Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.
Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
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.
What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence.
I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.
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.
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 think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve.
Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about.
I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really.
When we were starting out as a band, I was addicted to college radio.
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.
I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.
I think 'cool' is overrated.
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've found lyrics in songs that always center me.
