Quotes About Band

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

For me, the most challenging thing was developing myself as a songwriter and as a performer and as the leader of a band. And I just did it.

All the best bands have to have more than just one strong songwriter.

For 'Hey Monday,' there were songs that I co-wrote with songwriters or producers, but our last EP, the whole band did everything together. I've had a lot of experience with co-writes, which is basically what I'm doing now. I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.

Some songwriters have never been in a band, but the One Direction guys can relate to me, as I've been through the same kind of experiences as they have.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we try to do as a band.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

And I look forward to the time when I can become more indulgent with my songwriting. But this band is a family, and it's a process that we have to grow with together.

I think of the Tycho sound as something separate from the band. I think the methodology and approach to production I use on the Tycho records can be applied to a lot of things. But from a performance and songwriting perspective, yes, Tycho is a live band.

The Raspberries was formed as kind of a reaction to prog rock, which we didn't like. 'Let's bring some songwriting and harmonies back to music' And we did that.

Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.

During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone's ideas get contributed to it.

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.

Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.