| >>John<< |
| "I don't know about this internet, it scares the shit outta me." -House of Blues, Los Angeles "At least I suck on my own if I want to. I don't need a tape machine." -Referring to the Backstreet Boys at House of Blues, Los Angeles "Musical genres have become to seregated, in that people tend to focus on one thing, and that's it. Too much of it is about having the proper tattoo or the proper pair of shorts. Music tends to be identified with certain lifestyles now, as opposed to being about the appreciation of good songwriting." -Performing Songwriters, November '99 "My feeling has always been that inspiration is only a spark, which you then have to follow. And it generally lasts only for a moment. You get that spark, but then it requires work to build the fire." -Performing Songwriter, November '99 "It's also strange that the media sometimes seems to put you on a pedestal just so they can get a clearer shot at you. They build you up to knock you down." -Performing Songwriter, November '99 "I finally accepted that I was going to fall sometimes, but I also learned that the only way you fail is if you give up." -Performing Songwriter, November '99 "When 'Iris' came, that was very loud answer from somewhere. That song came to me so fast, and then, when it was out of my hands, it just exploded in my face. It really gave me the confidence to keep writing songs." -Performing Songwriter, November '99 "If you write an amazing, cool song that you mean, and then you go and put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people, that's okay. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go 'okay, I've got t write a song to fit these pants,' then you're in trouble." -Guild Gallery, July-December '99 "Music was the only thing that ever really got to me. It was the only thing that totally hooked me in. I hated sports. I hated people who played sports. They were all idiots." -Guitar One, February '99 "People can take the piss out of you if they want to. At the end of the day, I know I did exactly what I wanted to do. And when I finally got my head together and shut the outside world out, I put together some pretty fucking good songs. I may not be as cool as some other people, but I don't give a fuck, because what I write about is important to me. I'm really defensive about my scene, because it's mine and I'm proud of what I've done and I meant everything I did. A lot of people want to us shit for it. I'm ready to go toe-to-toe with the best of them." -Rolling Stone, November '99 "When you find success, suddenly you have to defend you credibility against [people] who don't know a thing about you. Some of the critics make it sound like we're the Backstreet Boys, like we're and R&B track act. I feel like saying, 'We've been a band for 12 years!'" -Teen Celebrity, November '99 "Gweyneth Paltrow kissed me on the cheek, and I took my shirt off in front of her- I don't think she liked that very much. She didn't take her shirt off, although I think my boobs are bigger than hers... but not nearly as nice!" -Describing his experience at the GQ Men of the Year Awards "There are people out there who are not gonna like what you do. But ultimately, it doesn't matter. You have to love what you do. And what's outside your sphere of influence, outside your sphere of control, that you don't have control over, you just have to forget about. And that's just the way it is." -MTV's Bio Rhythm " It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to have never lived." Canandaigua Show, August 28, '99 "People mask their feelings of inadequacy with arrogance- and I'm not about to do that." -Teen Celebrity, November '99 "I like where I am, I like what I'm doing. I love the people around me. I am a prick sometimes, but I'm working on that." "If life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone." "Be good, be bad, just be." "All songwriters are drunks." "Heavy metal is vapid garbage." "Big boys, stop jumpinhg on little girls, and little girls? If you see big boys coming move out of the way, and let them hit the ground." "People ask us all the time, 'How long has the band been together?' and I say 'Romatically or musically?'" "Wow. I've got a lot of favorite words. I love words. Not even so much what they mean, but the way they sound. Um..."Lascivious" jumped to my mind. I love to desrcibe things. I'm really good, with adjectives, you know? Which is kind of a weird game we play on the bus, which is we'll try to desrcibe things, like--but it's usually something really disgusting-- like, it would be, like-- and they're usuallycompletely X-rated-- so it's sorta, like, "You lascivious, misanthropic, blathery....' [starts laughing] Y'know, just like it goes on and on, 'Scaly..." "Oh....it's cold here....my nipples are hard." -Referring to the clevland concert, '99 "A big bottle of jack daniels, a bog of ice, and some ginger-ale." -John about his shopping list. "Cry me a rive, build and bridge, and get over it!" "There are two things you gotta learn how to say in life, thank you, and fuck you!" "I thought he was a freak." Referring to his first impression of Robby "God. I'm a prick today!" "And you know what that cheap bastard did? He didn't give me a tip. I didn't even get one dollar down my t-shirt!" -John on giving mike a table dance "Well, probably Celine Dion, 'cause then I could win a Grammy. That cow stole my Grammy." -When asked 'If you guys could pick someone to do a duet with, who would it be and why?' "Sometimes I hear a band that's really popluar today, and I think 'What the hell is this?'" "A lot of punk bands paint themselves into a corner with a set of hard-and-fast rules that they can't stray from. So they can't grow, and the become obsolete very quickly. Only the ramones can get away with making the same record seventeen times." " I think there are two things you have to do to sell out. You have to...you have to do something you don't wanna do, and you have to be paid off very handsomely for doing it...and we haven't done either of those things." "It's the music, it's about the music man." "It's fun to dress up now and then. But when we're home, we just wear jeans and a T-shirt. We're slobs at heart." "When I was a kid bouncing on my bed playing air guitar, I didn't pretend that I'd be playing with Mick and Keith [of the Rolling Stones]. I used to pretend to be those guys." "[On the band's name] Now I'm really stuck with it, huh?" "If I was going to be snotty I would refuse to play with the anybody but the 'cool' acts. But what do I care? People mask their feelings of inadequacy with arrogance, and I'm not about to do that." "So then we came up with a really COOL name. The Goo Goo Dolls. That was smart." |
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