Occupation: Musician Birth: December 31, 1959
Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So ….
I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the….
It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still ….
I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've….
I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician..
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on..
Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too..
I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll..
I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore..
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write ….
Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a t….
There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow..
Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everyt….
We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody ….
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing..
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not..
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-ne….
I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice th….
I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough ….
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much..
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm ….