I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on...
I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
This Byrd wants a Wren.
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone knows ther's is shadow there, but no one looks. It's like that with me, Byrd. I'm part illuminated, part in shadow-and that part that sh...
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.
I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.
There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
