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Musicals weren't on my radar.
We never do the same set twice.
My muse has always been the piano.
We've been here since 1983 as a band.
There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.
There's trials and tribulations in a band.
We love to make records, and we love to tour.
We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.
It's so much fun to be on stage and play. It really is.
I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself.
Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds.
'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world.
When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.
Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.
Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.
I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.
We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.
I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.
Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.
There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.
It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them.
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 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 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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.
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.
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.
We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.
Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
I guess, for me, the therapy is walking on stage, playing all of our songs, and walking out. That's probably my therapy. That's a good time.
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.
Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head.
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.
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.
Any honor is an honor. You can't really say which one is better than the next, but it's always wonderful when you're honored by your peers for your work.
People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.
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.
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 I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go round the world with my rock band, and you can bring harmony.
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.
Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.
We don't want to just be known for what we did. We want to be known for what we do and what we did. We've been highly productive since 2000 when 'Crush' came out.
My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.
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 don't like it when bands don't want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that's cheating everybody, and I think it's selfish of an artist to do that.
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.