83 Quotes by Ed Kowalczyk

Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.

What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence.

I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.

Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child.

I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?'

We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.

I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve.

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.