Quotes by Adam Carroll

“Its been a good couple of days for me here, particularly on Friday, because I was able to cover a lot of mileage for the team.”

“I think (humor) just kind of comes to me naturally. It just seems like kind of the way I like to do it. I kind of get a kick out of it sometimes, and I figure I have to be the first one to get a kick out of it. Then if everybody else does then thats OK too.”

“For (Far Away Blues) I wrote a bunch of half songs on the piano and the guitar, and then I had kind of theme going because I had it in mind who I wanted to have on the CD. And that was my grandfather, so I had kind of a family theme going. Its different for everything I do.”

“Sometimes I have an idea and Ill kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I come up with lyrics around it and see where its going. Sometimes I have the lyrics in my head and sometimes I imagine another artists singing the lyrics, like a famous person singing the lyrics, and thats kind of how I figure out how they should sound based on who I would want to sing the song.”

“The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone and trumpet and strings and piano. The other two (albums) Ive done are more straight-up singer/songwriter. The others were real story songs and these were more poetic-slash-story songs.”

“We play together kind of like a round-robin type of thing. As the tour progresses we tend to learn each others songs and kind of contribute. It kind of becomes a little group eventually, we try and support each other and feed off each other.”

“I am extremely happy to be joining Racing Engineering - I will not let them down.”

“The noise floor in the area continues to come up for us. This line would definitely have caused us to have problems.”

“It wasnt going too bad today, until I crashed into a wall! Up to then I was running sixth, and the car felt okay. Later in the race I was struggling a little bit, but it was okay until the rear end went away, and it just literally caught me out because into the corner the back went and I got it back around, but I just ran out of road and hit wall.”