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- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crohn's doesn't define who you are. You are a human being; you are special and a great addition to society. Crohn's is just a part of your life. Try to be positive and proactive - therein lies the solution.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the kind of guy who wants to be involved in everything concerning our new baby. I don't want to miss a thing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to make a living doing what I love is truly a gift, and I'm thankful for that every day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our way of doing business.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People will steal ideas and put them into songs.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's times when I go, 'We should have done a bunch of videos.'...Regardless of mistakes we've made, we made 'em, and we own 'em.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reason why we've lasted so long is we write music; we get very intense. We go away from each other, do our own thing, and then we get back together.
- Masters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.
- Debilitating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to eat in a way that's good for me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always push and pull with a record company.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
To just meet people that have Crohn's or colitis and to hear their stories gives me a lot of hope and a lot of courage.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crohn's patients differentiate their diet. You know, what I can handle and tolerate, another person couldn't, and what they can, I can't.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading an article with Stevie Ray Vaughan a long time ago, and the number '1959' stuck out to me for some reason. So I started searching those out as the band got more popular and I could actually afford one. And I found this one in Los Angeles. That's what introduced me to the whole world of 1959s.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a pre-existing condition.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020