Tom Scholz Quotes & Sayings

“'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about.”

“And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.”

“Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.”

“We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.”

“'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.”

“Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.”

“Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.”

“I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.”

“The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.”

“I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.”