Mod Sun Quotes

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

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

Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

Freddie Mercury said years later that he got the idea for 'We Will Rock You' from 'Bits and Pieces.' I never knew that.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the tones is inspiring, because it's obviously much more controlled than a guitar tone.

I like the guys in Cheap Trick. I like playing in it and the music we do.

I've always been a huge Eric Church fan. I'll never forget being in college listening to his first album and how much it inspired to write my own music.

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

The LUMS Olympiad back 10 years ago gave me a boost to sing songs where I first met with amazing Uzair Jaswal who did not sing cover songs but his original songs.

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

My guitar playing was born from playing in my teenage heavy rock bands.