Paul Westerberg Quotes

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

When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

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

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

'Rock Or Bust' is a thing we've always done.

We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

I've always been in a band where it's been somebody else's band - or pretty much always.

I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave Fortman as a producer. He's extremely talented. He wasn't able to get nine people together on the same page and, to me, that's the most important thing in making a Slipknot record.

When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

All musicians are potential band leaders.

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.