Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me,… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows. — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
Follow, follow the sun, and which way the wind blows, when this day is done. Breathe, breathe in the air. Set your intentions. Dream… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it.… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I'm very inspired by activists… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable.… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
It's about listening to the land and being patient and being ready to absorb our dreaming or our path or our destiny slowly, with… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
I love New Zealand and don't get to come there much. The south coast of Australia and New Zealand have a similar vibration, and… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds,… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
