Quotes About Passion

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.

I get to play what I'm feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum kit in Black Sabbath.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

And I've always loved playing solo.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

My music has always been my solo project.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

The only reason why I made solo records was because I got so obsessed with politics, and that is quite personal. I don't really philosophically believe in solo records.

It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.

When we're not doing any Pearl Jam stuff, that's when I'll probably think of doing something else, whether that be scoring - hopefully more opportunities will come - or doing a solo thing.

I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician.

I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.

There's something about 'Free Solo' that I look at the craft around it, and I'm really proud.

I don't think a solo album is me. I don't consider my voice to be that kind of a voice. Not that I don't love singing, but Broadway was my original dream. That's what I've always wanted to do.

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

The first song on my first album is not a song - it's a guitar solo! It's called 'Frenzy,' and it's pretty much nonstop maniacal guitar playing. I had just turned 19, and I had some serious muscle then.

The solo album is really my way of branching out and doing my own thing. I'm mostly known for playing other people's music, so this is a way to just do something that is purely from my heart and my creativity. So it's really exciting.