Steve Riley Quotations

We feel that we have to write. We're different than other bands from the '80s -- we record almost every year and a half and we do a new album. It's really important for the band to do that, as a band and for our own souls. We're writing fresh stuff all the time.

(We're) finally trying to nail down some specifics and pick between a couple of the really big options. Let's get on with something; let's make something happen.

We've got a quirk in our own business license.

We were trying to do something to encourage recycling without taking over and making it a town trash department. It's just kind of been there. It's been one of those things that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of attention.

We've seen several proposals to try and build in the central and South Forest Beach area. We thought the strand blocks and the covenants already offered protections. ... This most recent one brought it to a head.

We're hard rock, not heavy metal. We go out, we plug in and we play. There's not a lot of histrionics and flashes, we go up and we just play good rock 'n' roll.

We try to experiment around and really try to make every album a little more interesting than the last,

I think FEMA's just a little overwhelmed right now. There's not somebody tapping them on the shoulder. I don't think they're looking too much at the reimbursement. Hopefully that will get straightened out in time.

Our material is all so recognizable that I think the fans are going to love it. One song after another is recognizable. The tour has been going really, really good so far. There's been very little drama on the tour because all the bands get along really well.

Our music has been affected a lot by them. With the younger generation, our music has had an effect on them. It's all about the domino effect people have on one another.

We have a lot of influences, but we turn all that into an L.A. Guns' style.

We knew and said six ways from Sunday at the time we were setting the rate, this was our best guess based on the data we have today. We took in more money than we should have.

We try to do a couple of songs off of each album we've done,

There's some technical things they've pointed out that we decided we agreed with.

There's just an equity issue. Every other industry has to have this. We've just been administering ours wrong for a couple of years.

The state needs to put more money into the highway infrastructure, period.

It's kind of hard for him (Johnston) to carry two rifles and look at everything.