“I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because ...” — Levon Helm Quote

I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

I always layer my vocals a lot. I sing a minimum of three layers of the same line every time, and then it's always one or two or sometimes even more harmonies.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't seem like a good harmony reference but it was for us. We wanted to take harmonies from Mayday Parade and be a guitar playing band.

You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state.