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| "Rob kept like lighting himself on fire. That's something... I mean, Rob's done some crazy things on stage before, but lighting himself on fire was definitely weird.... Yeah, I never thought he'd go off like that." "I'm a bitch." - (from the live in australia video) "Kyle's the most naturally talented musician in the band." "Come on, I'm the drummer, you guys don't see my butt." "Fires? The name Matchbox 20 comes from the fact that when I was growing up I had a little problem with starting fires. It got to be this big thing where they didn't know who I was, but all these fires were happening." - (on the band's name) "My dad played professional basketball in the Midget Basketball League... for the Punxatawnie Matchboxers." - (another explanation for the band's name) "They gave us a huge bag of like 600 of them (matchboxes) and I left them in an airport...yeah, needless to say, I'm not allowed to hold anything anymore." "I heard on the internet that I'm gay. Yeah, that's what it says on the internet. Me and Rob are both gay, I think we're gay lovers. Right on, thanks for the press." "Rob is the king of fucking up. He does it all the time and he does it very well." "Our life has become so plush, it's sick." "In case you didn't know, I am God." (May 17, 2003 in Wilkes Barre, PA) "It's part of the whole experience of going to the show. I am not opposed to Ticketmaster setting up an eBay kind of thing. I would put a cap on what you could do with each ticket. You can't sell it for over $500. If I buy a blender, pay $10, and then sell it for $20 on, well, good for me." (on scalping) "Our live show is basically our record on steroids, with lots of shiny lights." "We don't pretend to be something we're not. None of us wanted to be celebrities. We're not a band that is recognized by our faces." "Breakfast, lunch and dinner, except on Sunday. Atlanta just feels like the right place." "Yeah that's pretty funny. We were laughing." (about the line in Austin Powers 2, "The moon unit will be divided into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa".) "She is so used to it. Her name has been kind of pop culture ever since she was born. It was a news story when she was born that this crazy rock star guy named his kid Moon-Unit. She is used to it. She has had it her whole life. But it was definitely funny". "I don't know anyone who calls her Moon Unit. Everyone calls her Moon." "Five years ago, before I was married, we had this stripper come down to a birthday party for a friend in L.A. She did this thing called "feed the kitty" where you lie down on the floor and hold a piece of licorice in your mouth and she would fuck it. Then you eat the licorice. She did a whole presentation, taking out a big thing of Twizzlers. She was very prepared. Out of all the people, only four of us did it. The funny thing is I didn't even realize I was eating the licorice. Then one of my friends was like, "Dude, you're eating the fucked licorice!" But I figure it's been five years and I haven't seen any adverse effects." (how...interesting...) "I broke my arm to 'Stairway [To Heaven']." "I used to be Madonna or Suzi Quatro." "We're spoiled rotten." "But I'm in a gang...the Apple dumpling gang." - (paulie on gangs) "Rob's a rockstar, he makes us call him Mr. Thomas." “When you’re in a band, and it’s a band that does well, you kind of have the whole outside world of, the whole outside circus, of going to big parties … and all that kind of stuff – like being a celebrity. That’s not really our thing. And that’s kind of what we view as the ‘bright lights.’ If that doesn’t work for ya, that’s cool.” "Hell yeah, I’m a big karaoke guy,. I love karaoke. It’s hysterical." "And I think he sang it better than I could ever sing it. He did such a good job on it, so I couldn’t argue." (Could I Be You) “I did Dream On, rocked it I gotta say, by Aerosmith. I love doing old R.E.M. The place that we go, I have a group of friends that we all go with and it’s like serious rock karaoke, it’s not like cheese karaoke.” |