 There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that. |
| We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago. |
| There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell. |
| I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. |
| There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir. |
| Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. |
| Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. |
| We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring. |
| If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well. |
| My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. |
| I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about. |
| I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. |
| I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. |
