Will Perry
Will Perry
careers
I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.
drinking beer thinking
I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.
play guitar able
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.
song rock-and-roll rocks
Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.
The '70's came and went already
boys thinking want
I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
music play people
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity
soul musical diaries
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
work-out guy too-much
When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'
killing more-time glad
I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.
long feelings different
India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
rocks rock-n-roll heroin
There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me
real night screw-ups
I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.
labels music-is
Music is music you don't have to put a label on it