I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.
I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.
Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.
As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.
I love U.K. festivals because people go to watch as many bands as possible. They aren't just there to see their favourites; they'll be there all day long.
The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.
A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!
So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.
