The Edge Quotes

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

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.

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 create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

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

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.

With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'

We need a hit, so here I go.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.