I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people’s lives. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
There’s a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It’s not punk, it’s not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
With ‘Mental Jewelry,’ we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. ‘Throwing Copper”s mission was to begin to get some of that back. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don’t want to exclude anyone. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It’s not two separate things. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
We’ve never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I’ve always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
We don’t want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once – major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
We’ve never been a band that gets up on stage and says, ‘OK, we’re going to play our entire new album.’ Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I’ve always worn that on my sleeve. Ed Kowalczyk Read Quote
