John Popper

“I've met Hillary, she's amazing. But I couldn't agree with her on too many issues.”

“A song like 'Once You Wake Up,' is about that realization... about finally wanting to live.”

“MTV is such a commercial blitz that a lot of our fans would not watch it.”

“H.O.R.D.E. is all about live music.”

“I love to start things.”

“I fell in love with somebody, and there was no way it would work. She didn't feel the same way, and it forced me to look at my life.”

“There's a certain kind of confidence that comes with being older that you can't fake when you're young.”

“As an artist, I wear many hats: musician, songwriter, producer, band member of Blues Traveler and solo artist.”

“I never learned the subtle art of flirtation, so women tend to think I'm not interested when I'm actually desperately interested.”

“We're all in a social contract. Whether we like it or not, we live in each others' good graces.”

“The idea is that we're always going to have a good live show, and we love to pay our music and write well.”

“I try to be eccentric, but I'm cognizant of my responsibility.”

“You have a right to love firearms. And you also have a right to hate them.”

“I try to play like Jimi Hendrix is playing. Forget what instrument you're playing, forget the colloquialisms, and Just get into what you're trying to say. You can play very originally that way.”

“There's a very personal kind of nourishment I get out of playing. It's the thing that I do really well.”

“I do believe that an armed society is a polite society.”

“I was really fat.”

“I play with a very neurotic approach.”

“If you can play something sincerely, then everyone puts themselves in that experience and says, 'I know what they mean,' even if they don't know what you're singing about.”

“I love confronting karma problems all the time.”