Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.
I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.
I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.
A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: 'If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it.' But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to. We've always wanted to do a live album because personally, I think we're a way better band live than on record.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.
Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.
I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.
We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.
For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.
When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.
One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.
Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.
So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.
On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.
I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.
I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.
I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.
When I went to shows with my friends, it was all about the experience with my friends. If I met the band, it was cool. But it was more about talking about the memories of the show with my friends.
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.
I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.