Melissa McCarthy Quotes

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

The best live shows I've ever been to were Green on Red live shows. Amazing live band.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

As a member of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and now Prophets of Rage I'm pretty used to coming on stage and there's a full house.

Music is what I do pretty much all the time. I'm always in the studio. I'm always rehearsing for shows. Always doing shows.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

I'm a fan of making music more than talking about it.

Making music is like school to me.

I wanna make music; that's all I wanna do.

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at it pretty quick, and I learned my songs and how to play them.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

I saw Angus Young running around in a schoolboy uniform shredding on the guitar and just thought, 'That looks like a cool job.'

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

AC/DC is a tough gig for everyone in the band.

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.