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- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm afraid of something, I'm going at it twice as hard. I don't believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ashamed to say, but as a teen, there were times when I had to go to the church and get help.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm in control but that I'm going along for the ride. And I'm a lousy passenger; I love to drive.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want my daughter to be respectful and nice to people. I want her to understand the importance of being humble.
- Raise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scary part of alcoholism and addiction and that is until a person is ready to stop, they're not gonna, and there's nothing anyone can do. There's nothing anyone can say or do. And the unfortunate part is sometimes people die because of that.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want people messing with my sound, my stuff.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need a long, cold winter.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody was a democrat where we grew up. It was a blue-collar town and the democrats represented the working class and the unions. But very, very super-conservative Catholic, very proud immigrant community, very stoic.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just call us the band that wouldn't die.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a tiny bit of success, that's considered a sellout, whether you did anything different or not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people get a little resentful when they were there at the beginning, when they supported you when you played in front of nobody - which we still do. They get a little resentful when they have to share with new people. That's why I want to really look out for the people who've been with us from the beginning.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
When KROQ played 'Name,' that was the turning point for us.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it's just not real. We've set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that's supposed to be a community, like a real community. It's supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, social media is a one-way deal. It's like all the traffic goes one direction and I don't care how many people follow me, I don't care how many people like what I do, give me a thumbs up or whatever it is. I am here to share a piece of information that I've decided is relevant to our relationship as musician and audience member.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was always a guitar hanging around the house when I was a kid. It was a much lower impact instrument than me playing the drums, which is what I really wanted to do. My mother put a stop to the drumming.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd Skynyrd or Yes or Van Halen.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into alternative rock in the early 80s, bands like Husker Du and The Replacements. Bob Mould's playing was a huge influence. It was very heavy with a lot of open tunings, which was great because I played in trios, so I used open tunings to get a fuller sound.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first record we made in three days. We literally stayed up for three days making the first album. It was crazy, crazy, crazy for us to do that. We couldn't believe anyone would give us a record deal. I look back on that record fondly but with just the slightest bit of a cringe.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought 'Gutterflower' was a really good record, but the album before that got so big that everyone expected us to go through that again.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer feel the pressure of trying to write hits for the radio anymore.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were never hip, which is fine with me. We aren't that interested in that whole situation. But all the times how we tried and failed to get across in our music, we actually succeeded on 'Superstar Car Wash.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy watching Chris Matthews a lot. He reminds me of a throwback to the older school kind of pundits like Tim Russert.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like George Will, I don't agree with him particularly, but he's probably the smartest conservative out there.
- Clown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refuse to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I listen to a lot of conservative radio when I drive around in my car. I refuse to listen to him because he's just ridiculous, just a clown. I love Rachel Maddow obviously.
- Everyday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about everyday people, everyday lives.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living pretty interesting lives, we are traveling the world, we are going everywhere... it has been pretty cool! I'm so lucky to have been able to do all of that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up by four older sisters, so there's trouble right there. We are Catholic, very religious, and that sort of colors my world and my music.
- Crazy World
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a crazy world!
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Performing with a hologram in a three-dimensional world feels somewhat strange. But you know, the experience of playing live in a room full of people is most exciting, it's something that the social media has not been able to recreate. There's some kind of intensity about it, something that the social media doesn't capture.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020