A biography for Ed Kowalczykhasn’t been written yet.
“Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.”
“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.”
“If I were to sit around and think about all the things that were said about Live, I'd never get anything done.”
“When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are.”
“I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.”
“I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.”
“We really want the whole world to know about Live and to experience us.”
“When you're 19, girlfriends are girlfriends. Then you start thinking about the rest of your life and stuff. I don't know; something happens with your glands. Your alimony gland.”
“If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.”
“The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one of the goals is to suggest that something is going on beyond what you can see.”
“To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.”
“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.”
“Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.”
“I was buddies with Dennis Rodman back in the day; actually, I am still buddies with him, and so I have gone to a lot of games and always enjoyed it.”
“I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas.”
“We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know?”