83 Quotes by Ed Kowalczyk

Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

Life takes turns. There are forks in the road.

We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.

When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.

We've always been a band that questions things.

I think the message of the Live/Counting Crows tour is that, aside from what's going on trendwise, if you dig a little, you can always find something to inspire you.

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.