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“I was really into Blink-182 and punk bands like NOFX and MXPX.”
“After bands become successful, they always make that choice to do the record about how cool or how hard it is to be in a successful band.”
“I don't understand why Brandon Flowers keeps taking shots at us. Maybe he feels threatened, but he seems to be doing just fine on his own. It's pretty dumb. I mean, we're from the same town, and we've never met him.”
“I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.”
“We wanted to grow, and we were really over the circus theme at that point. We went out in the woods and got new clothes and all grew beards.”
“It's kind of disappointing and disgusting in a way, how some people are focusing on how we look.”
“I've gotten to see the world and play music with my friends.”
“Brendon's more of a Peter Gabriel fan, and I'm more of a Ray Davies fan.”
“We were in this park in Canada throwing a frisbee around, and there was a homeless guy there who swore to God I was Mick Jagger. I kept telling him I wasn't, and he kept thinking I was Jagger and wanted to play frisbee with us. Then he heard a siren coming and thought I called the cops - and he ran away!”
“It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.”
“We all like all of that, from 'Rubber Soul' to 'The White Album' and all of that, but even before, we were into that theatrical element of things. We didn't want to do a 'Sgt. Pepper's' thing.”
“And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without knowing all those songs.”
“Fever' was good for how young we were, but for me it's kind of like a yearbook picture. You look at it like, 'Oh, man, that's the suit I was wearing?'”
“People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.”
“We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.”
“I would never have thought I would see Axl Rose, someone who was so important to rock 'n' roll.”
“Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.”
“I don't think I listen to anything that I did when I was 17. I've changed a great deal.”
“We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.”
“I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.”