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“Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and 'Not for You' was the first time I used it. It was like a Christmas present. One day, it just showed up at my door. I called him up and thanked him.”
“Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.”
“As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government.”
“Crohn's patients differentiate their diet. You know, what I can handle and tolerate, another person couldn't, and what they can, I can't.”
“'Black Diamond' blew my mind. Ace Frehley came onstage and did it with us at Madison Square Garden a few years ago, which was a total high watermark in my life. When I was 13, I never thought in a million years that I would even talk to him; I'd probably pass out. And here I am playing with him!”
“I'm the kind of guy who wants to be involved in everything concerning our new baby. I don't want to miss a thing.”
“Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.”
“There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.”
“We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff.”
“Polaroids were the instant thing to get a photo back when I started it. You had to wait two days to get your film back if you had a real camera, and I was more of an instant-gratification guy.”
“There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.”
“I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.”
“We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.”
“When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.”
“I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.”
“Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?”
“Mad Season changed my life in a million different ways.”
“I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.”
“I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.”
“You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.”