| "My name is Rob, and this is my Elvis guitar." "If you're delivering flowers, every house you go to, everyone you meet, you're a good guy to them. All day, you're making people happy. Unless it's a funeral..." "I say, if you're going to bash us, just be clever." "It's reasonable to want to be a policeman, but when you say you want to be a rock star, it's like saying you want to be a princess or a goat or a firetruck. It's not realistic." "(Laughing) That's right. Paul had this patch over one eye, he was bald and he had chicken pox." [Paul’s condition during the recording of the first album] "I think if you're over 17 you can fuck up your life any way you want, but -- you can't blame me for it. You can blame Adam." "It depends. It's a matter of geography. Because the Smurfs are land animals while the Snorks are clearly water animals. So it really matters where they fought. But Poppa Smurf has got his shit together, and could build boats out of mushrooms, and use something to maybe drop on the snorks. Or find a way to drop things into their little airholes, like dead fish." (who would win in a war of Snorks vs. Smurfs) "Dance naked with your bad self." "Where's the fuckin' spotlight?" (when the spotlight refused to come on while introducing the band, PNC Arts Center) "Superman. He can do everything. Superman could beat Batman with his thing." (Rob on which Superhero he'd like to be) "It's not like I suffer for my art. It's more like I'd be suffering without it." "Man, it's a hot one!" (Rob in Indy 8/7/01) "I need a new shirt." (Rob in Columbus, Ohio 8/8/01) "Man, that was close. I spent three dollars on these earrings and if I lost them... man, I would be fuckin' lost." (after he dropped his earrings at a concert) "I play the piano cuz girls like guys who play the piano and this is the only way I can get laid!" "That "Livin' La Vida Loca" song. When I first heard it I was like "You know, that's a catchy song." Then next thing you know you go through that period where you're like, "Fuck everybody! That's a catchy song. That Ricky Martin is a good guy." Then a month later you're like "I wanna shoot that guy!" It was O.K. and then a month later it was just like, "I wanna kill that motherfucker." "Our goal is to just to keep doing this as long as we enjoy it" So you enjoy the rock'n'roll lifestyle? "I'm kind of "drifting" once again, always being in different places, always being on the road, but I really enjoy it. It's a good feeling and we love playing live. To be honest, I can't imagine anything I'd rather do. You know it's so amazing if thousands of people are singing your music. It's really mind blowing. We all love it, but we're not the kind of guys who go around and play the big stars. It's all about music you know and playing the music you like, not about big egos and rock star attitude." (from an interview August, 1998) "Fame has nothing to do with the quality of your work and once you realize that you can sit back and go, hey this is fun! But it doesn't have much weight to it. Fame is like a seed that perpetuates itself - you get on MTV and people come and see because of that, and then other people come along because you're getting all these fans. At some point you're like, well I'm not famous because I'm interesting, I'm interesting because I'm famous. And that fame is the only thing that makes me different from my friends back at home." "People don’t care if you just played somewhere else last night and you had to drive 200 miles to get there tonight. They only care that they want to see you and that they paid money to see you. So we just say, ‘fuck the excuses,’ and just go out there and play as hard as we can." "So I was up at 2 am last night watching flashdance...." "People are just curious about what goes on behind the scenes and for the most part they’re pretty cool about it. It’s like a hobby. Some people collect stamps and other people collect information about the musicians that make the music they like." "More people now are coming to shows and singing other songs. Before it was "Long Day" and that's all they'd sing and there was only eight of them [in the audience]. Then it got to where it's "Push," and there's almost a full club and everybody is singing "Push" and "Long Day." And now it's like been sold out, turning people away and they're singing everything. It's a good feeling to start a song that's not a single, to just hit the first note and people are like, yeah." |
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