When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to [be a musician], because of that fact.

Anthony Green

Categorized in : Thinking Song Writing

I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever.

Anthony Green

lucky want forever

If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path.

Anthony Green

desperate-situations path believe

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

Anthony Green

issues long people

If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.

Anthony Green

right-thing ifs path

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

Anthony Green

stronger soul men

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

Anthony Green

stills decision challenges

I deal with everything in my life in music - everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It's like my life jacket. If I didn't have that way of processing those feelings, I'd probably be a murderer.

Anthony Green

feelings song needs

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

Anthony Green

rocks kids people

For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.

Anthony Green

abuse confusion kids

I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.

Anthony Green

dad fun thinking

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

Anthony Green

care doe song

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.

Anthony Green

imagine vulnerable wife

My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.

Anthony Green

sarcastic brother mother

I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.

Anthony Green

recovery people years

I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that's a pure, organic process of learning from someone else's mistakes.

Anthony Green

mistake writing song

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

Anthony Green

focus self mean