Pat Smear Quotes

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

It's all about knowing your audience. When I buy a record by a band and it sounds completely different, I'm just like, 'Why didn't you change your band name?'

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music. You just say, 'It's so and so, or it's so and so.' But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.

When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.