Joe Elliott Quotes

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you're driving, don't forget your car.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal.

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.