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I'm a good bad boy - I drink too much, smoke too much, curse too much, party too much and I like deviant sex." "The guy from Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony walked past us and said, 'You guys got a really good record, you guys are good.' You don't expect that...to happen." "If you sell going on 4 million records and you have fans and people supporting you, and you and your friends and family are healthy - if a couple of critics don't like you, you have to be a real jerk to be offended and start going, 'Man, my life is shit. I can't believe I don’t get any respect.'" "Still "Time" magazine called us and Prodigy two of the worst records of the year because it was misogynistic rock. It really upset me because if you are not going to like us because you think we suck, that's one thing. But to say that we are one of the worst bands because we're misogynistic rock? That means one, you didn't listen to our whole record. Two, you didn't actually listen to the one song you heard. It's uninformed opinion. Critics have the responsibility to be informed." "The main feedback we get from people is that they take the album personally. They listen to it and use it in certain parts of their lives. We were playing in New York and we were drivin' to the next town. Me and Paul were looking at each other and going...'Man, three million albums- that’s amazing!' We all ran to the front of the bus and listened to the record for the first time in six months. We were all up there smoking like chimneys and saying...'I don’t know if I get it.'" "If thats the way its going to be the rest of my life, if critics aren’t going to dig it but music listeners and fans are, I'm fine." "I can't tell if we are going to be a popular band for a long time, but I feel like we're going to be a band." "We wanted to do well enough that we ensured that there was going to be no problem with us making our next record. Once we went gold, we thought at least we could do that. If this one gets a big 'shit sandwich' tomorrow, it's going to be fine with us because we get to do it again." "It was all about emotional violence, about being manipulated, controlled and how relationships can become a game of who can control who. That was the whole intent behind it." [on "Push"] "It's like it's OK that we do this and you didn't go to be lawyers and OK that you didn't head off to university. It's OK that you don't own a chain of dry cleaners or whatever it is other people set out to do. Now, it's like our parents can be proud of you." "It was all because we got calls from New Hampshire. There’s a lesbian organization that wants to ban it from the radio because they think that it’s a misogynistic song and it’s about violence towards women. I met these friends of Kyle’s (Cook) that knows this group of girls in Indiana that won’t listen to it either because they think that’s what it’s about, which means they didn’t really listen to it in the first place. It’s no different than Bob Dole or any of the right wing religious groups that ban music without even hearing it, only it’s from the other side of the scale--it’s from kids and people that like rock music. I think that, if you listen to the lyrics, it’s pretty easy to tell. Usually, you’d think about that when you’re making a record— that we’d catch some slack for this-- but it never came up once that people were going to think this." "We think it’s funny because we made such a serious record, but we’re such goofballs. To hang out with us, we’re never serious about anything except for that hour or so that we’re on stage. I think it was just our way of throwing a goof in there." "I have better clothes--that's about it." [on how he’s changed in the past year] "I want to bring everybody in on it [much-improved outlook on life]. I want to let everybody come in and feel like a rock star." "Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories. But I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could." "I'm not one of those people who suffers for his art-it's more like I'd be suffering without it. Writing songs is almost medicinal for me; it's the best therapy I can think of." "I think it's good." "We can't help that we write poppy songs." "I guess our biggest goal now is just to do well enough to make another record and have anybody care." "You can spit-shine me all you want, but I'm still the same old piece of tin." "All five of us are starting to fuse together so that Matchbox 20, as an entity, has its own personality instead of five totally different guys." "I usually get my best ideas when I'm walking." "Wouldn't that be great? People would say, 'Who are you gonna go see tonight?' and you could go, 'Larry.'" [on wanting the band’s name to be Larry] "Well, before we started Matchbox 20, three of us were in another band called Tabitha's Secret. The only thing was--it wasn't a good band. That was the only thing that was holding us back. We could have gone all the way if we'd had any talent." "Yeah, okay, you're right. We're just a flash in the pan and we're totally untalented. Thank you." |
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