Ed Kowalczyk

Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could. ”

The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things. ”

Life takes turns. There are forks in the road. ”

It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do? ”

Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about. ”

You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something. ”

It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular. ”

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a big influence on me. ”

We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing. ”

Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever. ”