Kelly Jones Quotes & Sayings

“When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.”

“The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.”

“To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.”

“I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.”

“The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.”

“We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.”

“It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.”

“A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.”

“Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.”

“Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.”