John Doe Quotes

Restraint can be tough. I`ve made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That`s a challenge I`ve given myself, because it`s easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you`re exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.

You can`t be a politician with a guitar.

Yeah, I`ve always thought it had sort of a jazz improvisation aspect to it,

I`m just happy to be part of a `sophomore effort,`

I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,

We would tour the West Coast every four or five years. And every time we would finish we`d say, that was fun, we should do this more often. But (until this year) we never did anything about it.

I don`t know of any other band that has two vocalists that can sing together without competition,

I think whenever you are trying to establish something new, you have to draw a line and put everything that came before that behind you,

Well, `help` is the important word there because there were a lot of other bands back in those days doing similar stuff,

No. It was like father and son ... He is my father.