Jenny Lewis Quotes

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.

The Eagles are four very alpha personalities. We've all done solo work, and we've all played with very good musicians, but when the four of us get together, it becomes something that's much bigger than any one of us.

When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

You've got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody's more important than the next guy, and that's never been the case in Priest.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

With all the different guys in the band and all the different ideas of what's what, it's hard to get everybody on the same page sometimes. We are a very tight brotherhood, but we never know what we're going to do.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

We can't seem to put out an album without any drama.

Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'

There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year.

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.