Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Evan Dando

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.

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.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

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.

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

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.

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.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

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.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

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.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

So many times I thought to myself, man, I never want to do drugs again. But I would never sacrifice any experience I've ever had on them, and I am not remorseful that I've done them. I would like to get more and more away from drugs.

I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.

I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.