You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals.
We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
Slipknot started out of tragedy.
It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to go skateboarding in. It was me and Jim Ward and an acoustic guitar. He and I constructed the very first phases of At The Drive In.
No matter what I do, I've always recognized that Deep Purple is primarily an instrumental band. That's where all the music comes from in rehearsals - it all stems from the music.
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
We're obviously a London band, and British at heart.
The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.
The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.
The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
