91 Quotes by John Waite

I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure.

After Bad English, I made three albums back-to-back that I still think is my best work, but it wasn't meant to be toured.

We had huge success at first - really, really big. You could not turn on AM radio and not hear 'Every Time I Think of You.' And you couldn't turn on FM radio and not hear 'Head First.' And they were both on the same record.

You can't keep going back to Detroit because you're big in Detroit. You can go maybe once a year and sell it out because everybody loves you and looks forward to seeing you again. You can't go back twice in the same year.

When you play live, everything goes up.

I've never had a plan.

Television really does give you tremendous exposure in America.

I just tried to disappear and write songs.

I booked time in Philly Sound, which is an old church in south Philly that has a studio to the side of it that holds about 350 people. On the radio, we announced a free gig, bought about three kegs of beer. That got the audience slightly off of their legs, and we rocked the house.