Words matter. These are the best Evan Dando Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
I don’t like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it’s important I take mushrooms and acid. They’re certainly not addictive, so I can’t rule that out.
I’ve got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won’t be able to hear them.
But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven’t got it together.
CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don’t smell of anything.
I guess I’m about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don’t feel quite so insecure.
I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I’m so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly – constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
I have to make rock records occasionally.
But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn’t bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.
When I write a song, it’s all about the riff – the riff first, then the words come later.
The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
You know more about me than I do about myself, that’s probably true.
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of ’em.
I’d forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat – and I’ve been able to do that for 20 years. So I’m completely content.
I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
