Break Quote by Butch Vig

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing…

— Floor Jansen

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

— Paul Westerberg

I would always rather be working on the band. All that other stuff is stuff I really enjoy doing, but I don't consider it...…

— Guy Picciotto

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker…

— Roger Daltrey

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a…

— Tim Rutili

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

— Zachary Cole Smith

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed…

— Jeff Rosenstock

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

— Leon Russell

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

— John Frusciante

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions,…

— Izzy Stradlin

I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was…

— Kris Kristofferson

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion…

— Martin Gore