| "Ladies and gentlemen, my good friend, the young, the beautiful, and always bursting with fruit flavor, Mr. Kyle Cook." "Shake your arrrse." "Let's all try and play the same song, at least for the sake of our sanities!" "This is what you dream about when you are fourteen and playing in these really crap bands and paying to play most of the time." "I don't believe in writing those sappy love songs. That type of song gives you the sense that romance is just out there, everywhere, and you don't have to work to get it. I think that's cheesy." "Fight the Foo!" (about the Foo Fighters) "Damn the man." "Watch out! Watch out! Here they come! They're awfully cute!" (talking about how they were in Teen Magazine's "Cute Band Alert" section.) "We're so girlie. It's just pitiful. I mean, come and talk to us on the bus when we're painting our nails and ask if we're going to beat women." (talking about the criticism about Push) "This song, (laughs) it's about getting laid!" (about Damn) "If I'm soft and you start to measure me, it doesn't take long...with all the fiddling going on." "We're giddy like schoolgirls. We giggle. We like to touch each other." "I was wondering where the sex came in. I mean, it's her foot and it hurts and she has drugs and she's taking them, but this is LoveLine. I wanted to know where the sex was." "I lost my water......That's ok. More water just comes from out of nowhere, you see that? That's why I chose this whole rock and roll game, folks. So I could get water whenever I wanted! (takes a sip) Ahhhh. That's fucking beautiful!" "Ya'll like that shit!" "Yeah, I would rather hear, like, if you're gonna lie and, you know, call Loveline, it should be something like 'I put sugar on my testicles and had the cat lick it off' kinda thing. 'Does that, you know, am I warped?" "Life has a lot of angles, and I’ve definitely looked at it from a bunch of ’em." "I don't have to be at the top of the heap. As long as I'm in the heap." "I think we get up there and try as honestly as we can to convey the songs as energetically and heartfelt as we can," says Thomas. "These are our songs and we really feel good about 'em. I don't think we try and put any dramatics into it, but after a show when we're just talking to people, they'll tell us, You know you were so into it, that was so intense to watch.' To us, we were just playing the songs and losing ourselves in them. It's like if you come to a rehearsal, you're gonna see the same thing. It's not something that we can help really." "We always like to think there is not a lot of pretense in what we do. Everyone feels very fortunate to be where they are. Everyone has a really good time and puts everything aside for music. We all feel like we are in service of the music. None of us put ourselves ahead of that, no matter what else is going on." "Even though I wrote a song about something in my life, people can take it and apply it to their life. If we can provide that service, that’s good enough." "If you really love or hate something, the difference to me is miniscule. The reaction is the same: you’re red in the face, the heart flutters. That fascinates me." "But if I go uptown where the tourists are, someone will take a picture and then everyone takes a picture. People will come up and say 'I love you, man. I love the Goo Goo Dolls'." "I'm not writing for Mick Jagger, it was more like me going to learn from Mick Jagger. As a writer, this kind of thing is invaluable. There's no way you can go to any seminar and get what you can from sitting in a room with someone like that and watching them pick up when they have a spark [of creativity] and go at it. That's what it's all about for me — to find these people that know so much more than you do and learn, learn, learn." (MTV News) "It's a gay lifestyle traveling the countryside with your lute," Thomas says and laughs at his silliness. "It's too good to be true. It's like a 7Up commercial." |
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