| "You start to realize things that you think are important, and you realize you want to follow in the footsteps of the people you've admired. You don't want to be part of a circus, and you don't want to do anything that's greedy for just the "celebrity" of things. I think people are smart, and they can see that. It's better to keep your head down. You're just in a band; it's not such a big deal." "I do think we're cool [laughs]." "I think a lot of our stuff is about describing emotions. We're not using our band as a soapbox, or as our way to hook into any certain member of the disenfranchised. We're there for people who want to hear new songs. That's what we do." Amazon.co.uk:.....How did it feel to go from fronting your own band to being a hired hand and "the hot young guy" they got in to jazz things up? Thomas: [laughs] Hey, come on, it's not hard. Have you seen them? It's not hard to be the young guy in Santana! Amazon.co.uk: Okay, the sexy brooding guy who sings the song. Thomas: Hey, I wrote it! What the fuck do you want me to do? [Laughs] I loved playing with them. And yeah, there were a lot of people coming up and saying "Well done, hey, and if it wasn't for Santana, you know…" I remember doing an interview for Sixty Minutes [American current affairs program] about Carlos and the interviewer asked "If you wrote the song and you thought it was good, why didn't you do it?". And I said, "Well if we did it, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you now!" "The point to "Mad Season" is the more you learn the less you know. You go through these little points in life when you come into something and you're totally naive, and then you learn about it and you think you've got it all figured out.... and you open another door and then it's something else and, hey, what the fuck is this? As much as you learn, there's more to learn; nothing is really cut and dried." "We used to joke that we wouldn't be proper rock stars until we'd hung out in a drag bar with Mick Jagger. Then sure enough . . ." Adam Corolla: So do you guys have to beat the women off with sticks? Adam: oh no, here we go.. Rob: We don't beat women Adam: yeah were not allowed to do that anymore. "We're going to do a song that we didn't invent. When you are in a band you hear a song and you say fuck I wish I wrote that song...that's why god invented the cover song. So we are gonna play a song we didn't write but we sure wish we did." (grabs lighting) "See, now that is just wrong. I am a short guy. If I was taller I'd be in trouble" "I know that it is hot in here...fuck it's it's hot...fuck it's....fuck..." "We're hobnobbin with the stars, but they don't know who we are." OW: "If I was host of MTV’s Cribs, what special part of you and your wife’s Westchester, N.Y., home would you show me first?" Rob: "First, we probably wouldn’t let you in the house. [Laughs.] They asked my wife [supermodel Marisol Maldonado] through her agency. ... Her answer to them was, "Tell them we have a home, not a crib, and they can’t come." But it would probably be either my wife’s little Zen room -- her little sitting room -- or maybe just the whole backyard that leads down to the brook. It’s not a big house, it’s just got a nice little pretty backyard." "My girlfriend can kick my ass!" "I used to do a lot of hitchhiking. I had my little keyboard with me in my backpack, I'd pull it out and sit there and work on some tunes. I'd spend a lot of time at three o'clock in the morning, sitting for hours." "If Counting Crows were the Backstreet Boys, then we were, like, N'Sync, the next generation." "You can't...you can't imagine how good it feels to do what we do and have you people do this for us the way that you do...we would.. we..we believe i mean we believe its not its not like curing cancer or brain surgery were nothing special at all except we write songs and you guys come to hear our songs. Thank you for listening to our songs, we'd do it for free I Swear To God!" "Ya know ya see all those guys in the rock video's wearing their tight pants....doin' the tight pants dance...oeoeo." (from Making The Video: Mad Season) "Mick and Brian, Brian and Mick. Hey Mick, what're you up to? I was just about to call you Brian! Hey, Brian, let's go shopping! Let's go see 'Saving Private Ryan'!" (Rob pretending a conversation between Brian and Mick Jagger) Rob on his weight loss secrets: Just sticking to fruits and vegetables? "And heroin. It's amazing! I'm surprised no one's ever talked about that before [in the media]. It's such a great way to lose weight." "I flail." |
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