Keren Woodward Quotes

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.

Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.

I don't particularly like working with girlbands because it's very hard to find a girlband that all get on.

When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

Very rarely can you bring someone new into a band and have them just fit perfectly, right away.

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.

Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.

A lot of bands don't really like each other. I read an Interpol interview the other day, it was a really good interview because it was showing a different aspect of a band. They don't really like each other - they work together and they kinda exist together and that's how they like it. They're like, "we didn't get into this band looking for friends."