91 Quotes by John Waite

There's a lot of compromises, but that's what a great record should be, really.

When we're out touring, we often go to clubs to see people play. The alternative is to go back to the hotel And that's no good.

So much of your life is wrapped up in the songs. All the twists come back, and you go back to that place when you were singing it. It's like reading your own diary and being in a time machine.

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

You don't have to keep trying to sound like your last song. There's new things to do.

The moment you stop becoming an artist, you kind of trade it all in.

I think the stuff that's very spontaneous, not contrived at all, is the stuff that works.

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan - and they were expensive, too.

I really don't align myself with anything.