| "This is the part where fireworks shoot out of my ass!" "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." "I did a snow angel in prison." "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.'" "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'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." "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 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." "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] "Yeah, okay, you're right. We're just a flash in the pan and we're totally untalented. Thank you." "But I can't listen to music when other people are talking or if there's stuff going on in the room. I have to listen to all the words. It drives me crazy to be in the car listening to my favorite CD and everyone's talking. I keep turning it up until everyone in the whole van is yelling: ‘Turn that down!’ So I bought headphones and I feel better about myself now. Everybody likes me again." "Everything has exceeded our expectations. Anything that happens now is just extra. We're waiting for the first big thing to screw up. Like a plane crashes into our rehearsal space so we can go, ‘Oh, there you are.’" "It's fun buying your friends drinks." "I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I'm always the least rich, the least popular guy in the room. If I ever get rich, I'll go back to L.A. to remind myself, ‘No you're not rich, you're not even that attractive. Go back to your hotel, which isn't even that nice.’" "Call them a one-hit wonder and people won't expect much from them. It just didn't work the way they've planned it." "We don't take ourselves real seriously. It's like a big comic book." "We played the record company a few new songs, had a few beers..." "Somebody working at McDonald’s would love to be where I am, so I’m going to give it my all." "It’s like you just go 'Boooinng.'" "Just go read some bad press. That'll keep you going." "I remember looking down from the stage and seeing my two ex-girlfriends beating each other up. Those were the days of big, high drama." "Me and Paul would sit in one room of a hotel and in the other room there would be like, beer and booze, and women passed out, and we'd sit on the couch going, 'You know man, we live a very shallow existence. Do you want another beer?' We out-drank Pantera." |
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