Quotes

I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.

After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

We were all 16 and 17. When you're that age, you're just daydreaming all day. We had bands we loved - Green Day, Weezer, a lot of bands in the '90s - and we just wanted to have fun. We didn't overthink it too much.

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having a good time.

Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.

I really love 'Cold Song.' If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there's a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.

Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.

I love the gym; I do a lot of curls.

I think it's a known fact that Joel and I have always loved Australia since we started coming here 13 or 14 years ago. Everyone knows we love it here. Our only concern is will we wear our welcome out?

I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.

We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay with them because you can't stand the thought of them being with someone else. It kills you.

What it would have felt like to fall in love and have nothing holding you back from being completely free.

I love to run and do it every day. I run slowly, by the way.

I love Israel, am proud of it.

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.