I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies..

I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just tell the band's stories; if I describe….

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation..

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band..

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room..

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor ke….

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band..

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do..

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there..

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right..

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible..

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles..

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time..

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to ….

I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time..

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station..

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band..

When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals..

I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band..

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band..