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Everyone has secret ambitions; mine was to be a rock singer. I thought I could sing. But when you sing in the shower, or with headphones, what sounds good to you doesn't always sound so great to others. My parents demanded I close all our windows when I acted out my rock dreams.


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DAN HICKS I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labe...
DAN HICKS I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'...
DAN HICKS My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stag...
DAN HICKS There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the wor...
DAN HICKS And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time war...
DAN HICKS It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ...
DAN HAWKINS We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v...
DAN HAWKINS We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
DAN HAWKINS We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&...
DAN HAWKINS We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ...
DAN HAWKINS There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la...
DAN HAWKINS The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ...
DAN HAWKINS My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at ...
DAN HAWKINS I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the expos...
DAN HAWKINS As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypass...
DAN HAWKINS After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
DAN HAWKINS When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really ...
DAN HAWKINS I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
DAN HAWKINS Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
DAN HAWKINS I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don...
DAN HAWKINS The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And vie...
DAN HARMON Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels ...
DAN HARMON