Evan Dando Quotes
"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Books, Memory, Right, Songs)
"I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure."
- Evan Dando
"I have to make rock records occasionally."
- Evan Dando
"I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Lie, Fact, Guitar, Play)
"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."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Women, Jokes, Needs, Ugly)
"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."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Alcohol)
"When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later."
- Evan Dando
(Related: First, Song, Words)
"I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Night)
"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."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Lovers, Old, Years)
"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Songs)
"Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle."
- Evan Dando
"Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?"
- Evan Dando
(Related: Movies, Act, Right, Stars)
"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."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Dream, Content, Years)
"It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Wife, Fun)
"I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Money, People)
"It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Love, Boss)
"I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Time, Hope, Quiet)
"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."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Money, Work, Fancy, Flying, Fun, Trying, World)
"I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Hair)
"You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true."
- Evan Dando
"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Corporate, Now)
"For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Love)
"Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption."
- Evan Dando
(Related: History)
"CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Corporate)
"But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together."
- Evan Dando
(Related: states)
"But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway."
- Evan Dando
"Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Vacation)
"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."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Music, Fun, Play, Quitting)