• "Go back and listen and see for yourselves how much of modern music is influenced by John Lennon." from the "Working Class Hero" album.

• "All we do, and all we want to do is write and play good rock and roll."

• "I've always preferred to leave the categorization and the labeling to other people. They can call what we do whatever they want, it doesn't bother me. As long as listen to it, and as long as they like it, I'm real happy."

• "This next song we are about to play is what I thought was going to be are second single, but then I got a fax in New Zealand saying Listen is going to be the next single....this is "Blame" (saying that just before they played "Blame" at the Omaha, NE show)

• "This next song is the band's most favorite off the new album." (saying that to the crowd just before they played Forgiveness at the Omaha, NE show)

• "We spent a lot of our time working on this album mostly because we had some problems with our former managers that we had to get out of the way before we could really focus on the music."

• "Headlining is cool, I mean opening was cool also. It's a different mind set for each one."

• "It's unbelievable thrill to just sit back stage and talk to Eddie Van Halen or Joe Perry. These are people I idolized! Heck, I still idolize them! It's also a big kick to be able to watch them play every night. You can learn so much from just watching what they do and the way they do it. But, at the same time it's time for us to step out on our own. We want our own stage, and know it's or crowd. It's time for us to make our stand."

• "I never knew cows could be so loud."

• "Hi, I'm Ed Roland from the band Collective Soul at the Texas Motor Speedway at the first ever Blockbuster, Rock Fest. Here with lot's and lot's of people numbering over 10, 12, 14 something like that. Anyway we're going to go mingle with the crowd and get into the vibe of things."

• "This is very exciting, cause its so much energy in this place, it's so big, it really just sucks you in. We can't wait. All I have to do is go change clothes and I'm ready to play."

• "In that bus we get smaller and smaller the longer you stay on the road, but every time we walk out on stage, it makes more then makes up for it. So that, it's actual performing of it, the best part of live."

• "I don't know what is normal anymore, but whatever's goin on feels good."

• "All right, we want you to sing with us. When it comes time I want you to sing turn your head baby just spit me out."

• "You like that camera, don't you?"

• "Let me some hands in the air! We are going to do a GAP Band tune for ya and I want to see some asses wigglin' and I want to see perfection.

• "Where'd my hands go? Keep the hands goin'. We're going to let our drummer sing for you now. This is our drummer Shane."

• "Hello my wet and wild Springbreaker friends, we're Collective Soul."

• "Thanks a lot! See ya next rainstorm."

• "I write from how I feel," says Roland, "and at this time I was dealing with more emotional things than I'd ever dealt with in my life. It was painful to write these songs, but in the end, it felt like therapy."

• "I live and breathe music, the whole band does."

• "Honest to God. Everybody Moved back into the basements. And we rented a cabin 10 miles from everyone's parents, because I had a little bit of money come in from performance royalties, and that's where I collected a little bit of musical equipment and we recorded a new album."

• "I'm a little more rhythmatic, Ross Childress goes for a prettier sound, and Dean just beats the living hell out of his guitar. That's how the sound gets put together."

• "I didn't understand the Tele at first, but now I won't use anything else. Mine have Texas-wound pick-ups, and I run them through a pair of Blues DeVilles."

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