I’d never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it’s been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better. Ryan Ross Read Quote
Fever’ was good for how young we were, but for me it’s kind of like a yearbook picture. You look at it like, ‘Oh, man, that’s the suit I was wearing?’ Ryan Ross Read Quote
I’ve noticed that things aren’t bad all the time. So I’ve tried to write songs that people will want to hear when they’re getting off work rather than something that’s going to bring them down. Ryan Ross Read Quote
What we’ve realized is, for us to be happy for the long haul, we have to keep doing what we want to do, or else we won’t want to play music with each other anymore. Ryan Ross Read Quote
And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn’t believe that I’d gone my whole life without knowing all those songs. Ryan Ross Read Quote
Whenever I’d go anywhere with my dad – in his 1980 burgundy Dodge Ram – he’d always listen to mix tapes of country-music stars like Garth Brooks, Clint Black and Willie Nelson. Those were the first songs I ever learned the words to. Ryan Ross Read Quote
I just couldn’t keep on trying to please people. It was hindering my creative output, and I had to be honest with myself. Ryan Ross Read Quote
We all like all of that, from ‘Rubber Soul’ to ‘The White Album’ and all of that, but even before, we were into that theatrical element of things. We didn’t want to do a ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ thing. Ryan Ross Read Quote
When I was about six, I was kind of a cowboy. I’d dress up in boots, straps, hat and bandanna, and my dad would take us to the rodeo. Ryan Ross Read Quote
