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| "I'm the short guy with the red hair." "All you can do is what you do, and do it as well as you can." "For me its sort of more the same. For John, John is going to move as he always does, in both directions. I think Dizzy had some of the heaviest stuff, as well as some of the most melodic and interesting acoustically put together songs that we've ever done. I think that that's sort of what we try to do with every record. We try to push the walls up in both directions, instead of just going one way or the other because you tend to limit yourself at that point, I think." -When asked if he has any rock left in him "Well we have this bizarre concept of trying to make good albums. I don't think a lot of people do that any more. I know that sounds ridiculous, I don't think that no one does, but I think a lot of people just write a bunch of songs and hope they have those two that are going to sell records for them. And I don' t think we've ever really felt that way. We've always tried to make sure that our records have gone enough interesting places that you could sit and listen to 40 minutes worth of music, which is really difficult I think, sort of." "Most bands have a couple of songs that are sort of unique from the record and very, very produced and very calculated. And the rest of the record seems to be full of one sort of music. That's what I've noticed. So those records get boring, you know? You want to take people on a- not to sound pretentious, too pretentious anyway- you wan to take people on sort of a trip through your record. A journey through your record so it remains interesting as does a book or a movie." "Mike? what's that sound that comes out of your face sometimes?" -Rolling Stone, November '99 "When no one wants to talk to you, that's when you want to talk to everyone." "My songs are in millions and millions and millions of households, wheter they're on the radio or not. To me, that's a brilliant victory." -Rolling Stone, November '99 "Dude, we fight like you would never believe. We've chased each other down the block. I threw him down a staircase when his arm was broken." -Referring to fights with John, Rolling Stone, November '99 "Fucked-up shit happens to good people sometimes." -Rolling Stone, November '99 "I don't fee like a musician- I feel like a kid with a guitar." "The scene changes. You don't stay around for ten years when you follow the scene, you know?" "[On City of Angels] I don't think I've weeped so much since, like, 'Born Free.' It's bad." "We really didnt start out with the idea that we'd be successful, it's just the Johnny writes songs that have crossover appeal." "[On "Iris"] Sometimes John just really pisses me off by how good he is. He touches that thing in your heartthat men don't like to have touched. That song just connects to a lot of people." "I'm trying to picture some little girl who's favorite bands are like the Goo Goo Dolls and Savage Garden or 'NSync goin 'Awe, that Johnny is so cute. I'm going to buy all his early records,' and putting it on and then screaming and running to her parents." [On asking Beck to work on Dizzy Up The Girl] "We asked Beck, but he said, 'I can't, but I think my dad's free.'" |
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