When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was s….

We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vo….

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even wh….

After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the tou….

It costs lots of money to make records. It costs lots of money to generate artwork and manufacture and then ship things to people. If it keeps gettin….

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt….

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it..

But the reality is that we are a folk band..

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories).

My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims ….

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record..

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band..

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands..

The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final and that I can do it again, better. T….

I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live..

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band a….

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music..

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over..

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover ban….

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason..

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun..