Taylor Goldsmith

“I love Santa Barbara and have always dreamed of someday having enough money to have a spot up there.”

“Our dad was a singer and keyboardist and was in bands throughout his whole life. He was in a band called Sweathog that opened for Black Sabbath and eventually was the lead singer of Tower of Power for a few years.”

“I write these songs and I like the idea of letting the band interpret it as they will. This band is like any band; it's not just me. This isn't just a way for me to play my songs. There are four distinct artistic voices, and they deserve to be expressed.”

“Slash is one of the greatest guitar players I've ever heard, and it's amazing when you hear about all the crazy stuff he's done.”

“It's easy to look at kids sitting around a campfire looking at their phones and to think, 'What a shame.' But I think they're going to be more advanced in terms of communication than my generation.”

“We're thrilled to play an offbeat place. Our music fits with it. I love playing unusual venues.”

“Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.”

“I'm in my early thirties. I live in Los Angeles, California. I'm an artist.”

“There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.”

“When people do, or say, things we don't believe in, forgiveness can feel disgusting. But when you try to think of someone who isn't worthy of it, it's hard to find an example.”

“Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.”

“I actually like social media, and I recognize what modern technology serves.”

“When I think of bands that have maintained a certain level of success all along - Metallica, or the Red Hot Chili Peppers - no matter what anybody thinks about them, you have to look at them and say, 'Wow, those guys operated under the most pressure.'”

“I think that there's a singular emotion that goes along with what the bands that we love mean to us. I feel like people feel represented by that in a way that you don't get from saying, 'Oh, I like this book' or 'I went to college here' or 'This is what my job is.'”

“I know some bands that don't like touring and are able to make a living producing other bands. There are a lot of ways of carving a living out, but it's become tougher and tougher to figure out what that means.”

“And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.”

“But when you're six records deep, every record has one or two songs that need to be in every set, so you're already looking at 12 songs that you know you're going to play.”

“I aspire to be someone like Gillian Welch. What she does is play part of a group with two acoustic guitars with harmonies. She plays folk. However, there is no one that sounds like Gillian Welch. I aspire to come up with a unique sound like she has.”

“When you go back and listen to 30 years of Tom Petty records, they are pretty consistent. I love that.”

“When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we don't treat it the same way.”