Ed Kowalczyk

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.

— Ed Kowalczyk

What I think shines through for us is that we have a real respect for the music and a real reverence.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin'…

— Ed Kowalczyk

You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

— Ed Kowalczyk

The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things.

— Ed Kowalczyk

We've always been a band that questions things.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really.

— Ed Kowalczyk

We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at…

— Ed Kowalczyk

“This world was just a dream\ We were sleepin' now we are awake”

— Ed Kowalczyk

With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the…

— Ed Kowalczyk

You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.

— Ed Kowalczyk

The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I was buddies with Dennis Rodman back in the day; actually, I am still buddies with him, and so I have gone…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit…

— Ed Kowalczyk

We really want the whole world to know about Live and to experience us.

— Ed Kowalczyk

If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.

— Ed Kowalczyk

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I think 'cool' is overrated.

— Ed Kowalczyk

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.

— Ed Kowalczyk