"I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music."

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"I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record."

Music

"Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable."

Age

"When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want."

Success

"I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down."

First

"You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success."

Success

"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."

Sound

"To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole."

Earth

"Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like."

Audience

"When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best."

Work

"I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears."

Car