David Bryan

We love to make records, and we love to tour. ”

How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better. ”

I love my band. I love to play. I love to write. ”

I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience. ”

I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world. ”

Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world. ”

One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.' ”

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands. ”

I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle. ”

My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano. ”