Dave Madden quotes:

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

I try not to look back on my career.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.