“We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?”
Jon Bon Jovi
“I'd really like to meet Pete from the band Fall Out Boy, ... But really, the best part of the year was that I really loved, well, feeling loved by everyone.”
Carly Patterson
“Five years ago, boy bands could get away with having one good vocalist and four good looking guys. Nowadays, it's not about that. It's a lot more about the music, the sound. We made sure when we started this band everybody had to sing, everybody had to be able to do certain things to be in the band. Everybody had to really, really want what we're doing today.”
Kian Egan
“We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.”
Simon LeBon
“I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.”
Ben Folds
“Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with.' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases that's it.”
Lars Ulrich
“The bands that I respect are the ones that have lasted the longest. Any band that can keep being a band is [lucky] because the music industry is [in bad shape] and [is only getting] worse. We hope and pray that we still get to play rock shows in five years and that people still show up.”
Damian Kulash
