Pat Smear Quotes

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that's what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris... they aren't rappin' and cussin' like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It's all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself.

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native instruments. Roland's a guitar player and I'm a bass player.

I've always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.

Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.

A band can be so much more than just a way to play songs.

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain genres, but the genres to me are made up things, like an imaginary world.

I can't really describe my sound.

Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument.

I was never chasing to make a career out of it, but every day after school, I'd go to my keyboard and play for four hours and make up songs. It was a constant part of my life.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.

I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'

If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.