Natalie Maines Quotes

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

I'd love to be a rockstar.

We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

When you're in a band, you're all in it together. You're always available. You're always available for the albums; you're always available for the tours. There's no question of that.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

I wanted to be a rock star.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

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

I think me and Kristen Bell are going to start a band. It's called Kung-Fu Professor.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

I really want to be a rock star.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

I expect to make a career out of country music.