We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.
— David Bryan
We keep trying to get better - constantly working at it. We love to tour. I love to play in front of people. You sit there, and everybody's smiling, and you're smiling. It's a good time.
When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.
I'm in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain't ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There's not enough time to sleep in my world.
We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones.
A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.
Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing.
Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.
In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.
Musicals weren't on my radar.
In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.
I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind of '80s revival now.
When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.
We never do the same set twice.
Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.
When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.
We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.
When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.
I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.
Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future.
I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.
How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better.
I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city.
Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.
I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.
I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true.
When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.
