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"Most of the songs ARE almost ballads because a lot of them started on this record from acoustics." Pointing to Jeremy, Mike remarks, "As soon as HE starts hitting everything, it's like, 'Oh jeez! He's at it again!'"
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"[Duncan] is great. He'd take a bullet for me and I'd take a kick in the balls for him" --Jeremy
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"I've been able to do all those things I used to hear in my head when I was beginning in music," Maida says, "which tends to be more like those female singers with acrobatic voices. I've been able to implement that more on this record, so hopefully that'll keep happening as I get better as a singer."
"...and slowly turn into a woman," cracks Taggart
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"I'd rather people listened to the music than jump on each others heads" - Raine Maida (on moshing)
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"I'm going to shut up so we can play as much music as we can for you." - Raine Maida
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"But I can't really do all that low, miserable stuff," Maida laughs. "My voice is just too high for that!"
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"We're not a band that comes in after a gig and pats each other on the back. It's very rare when we're sitting down and go, 'That was good.' Most of the time we get mad and don't talk to one another for an hour and a half." - Jeremy Taggart
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On our second record, we started a little threaded newsgroup bulletin board called the Clumsy Congress.
We watched it develop and I post on it and keep track of it. It really developed into its own community. They would talk about things other than the band, and we, maybe to the record company's chagrin, fully endorsed that behavior.
We spun it off into its own Web site, and now the site is probably more about the fans than the band. They do talk about the band, because that is their unifying interest. There's sections where they talk about Kurzweil, and I've read some of the most well-organized arguments about the issues presented in Kurzweil's thinking - I mean, you always end up face-to-face with philosophy when you deal with the man-machine and mortality; you end up in a philosophical diatribe - and I've read some of these incredible, well-organized arguments, only to find out they're from a 13-year-old kid.
That's one thing I really love about the reaction and the interaction we have with our fans on the Internet: it's completely stripped of context. It's purely the value of the ideas. At that point, you can really trust the information you get, because you know it's not burdened with 'I'm trying to be cool, because I've got the cool clothes' or any of those things. There it is, in text, what you've got to say. That's something that I really value as a connection with the fans. -Mike Turner
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I'm sorry not to have responded to this tragedy sooner, but I feel at a loss for words. If I had the words to say that would offer the comfort needed now, I would say them. I feel anything I can say is small comfort and if there is any chance we can make sense of this, I hope it becomes clear soon.
The events of the 11th will never make sense, I only hope that our respose to them does. There is never a right time for revenge, only responsibility. The people who committed this act must be held accountable, not the religion they believe in or the race to whom they belong. We are all of one people, and I think that the best has been brought out in many so let us dwell on that fact rather than stare into the abyss. Our hopes are with all of those suffering through this tragedy, the hope that they will get through whatever this has brought them. Our sympathies are with those that have sufferred loss and we share the joy and relief of those that escaped loss. All of mankind has been diminished by this act. During our career we have been lucky enough to get to know New York very well. The city, and indeed the world, will never be the same and for this loss we mourn, but if there is one place on earth that can survive this, it is New York.
Please try to keep a sense of balance during this time of trial, the balance between anger and reason. The anger is real and justified but keeping a sense of reason will be the testament to our generation. We must hold on to a belief that good will still prevail. Not a good based on politics or religion, but the good of all humanity. Let those you love know you love them and above all, keep caring about one another. -Mike, Raine, Duncan, Jeremy, and Jamie (a post on the CC about the 11/09/2001 tragedy)
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There seems to be too much fast food being consumed. Our Lady Peace is a long meal, like a sit-down dinner. -Raine Maida
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"Age is not something you've got to earn, you grow older by yourself and I don't understand why a lot of people think you have to look down on youngsters. Maybe they've already fogotten that they were young once" --Raine Maida
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"That's Our Lady (not of!) Peace; we aren't a religious band, just named after a poem by Mark Van Doren. Perhaps we weren't too bright when we overlooked the religious implications of the name, but then again, we didn't claim to be brain surgeons (or theology students)." --Mike Turner, on the band name
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"Musicians are not our profession.. Its not what we do, its what we ARE." - Raine Maida
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"I don't think that if you gave Van Gogh a couple more colours to paint with...that would necessarily be a bad thing." -- Duncan Coutts of Our Lady Peace discusses the band's use of guest musicians to augment their sound
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"We're all in the gutter, but some of us look up to the stars, and you can be happy in the gutter if you don't know to look up. So the people who can become addicted and driven and sort of obsessed by music are the ones who look up and see the heights they can try to get to. But that drive never lets them be happy where they are" --Mike Turner
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"We're musicians...not actors."- Mike Turner
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"Duncan has a fetish for stealing wheel chairs at Airports."- Jeremy on The band's weird habits
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"Techonology is amazing, but 2/3 of the world still isn't getting enough food to eat everyday." ~Raine Maida
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"Anyone who complains about that, needs to find a new job." --Raine Maida about fan Meet And Greet
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"I like to give media, not get media" --Jeremy Taggart
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"To move people on a spiritual level, its a great thing to do"--Steve Mazur
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"Buddy Hackett came into our dressing room and he stole our beer. He's a beer stealer" --Jeremy
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"When everything is over, is the world over or am I over?" -- Jeremy
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"If you don't get depressed sometimes, there's no way you're going to be able to realize when your happy and things are great" --Raine Maida
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