Steve Porcaro Quotes

I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

We don't have a constant PR person or anything. That's why people say. 'Oh, you're still together?' Yeah. I'm in Des Moines with the band, not because I'm sightseeing.

I'm always with my band; they're my best friends.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.

It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years.

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.'

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

When I get back with band, the lights, and the whole production, that's me with the full artillery. A quick radio performance keeps me sharp for the big show.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid.