"There are no curfews in rock."
"Don't just hear it, feel it." ~ What it said on Kyle's 'business' cards
"We'll rock them thoroughly."
"Fear of my life; thought we were dying. The swaying was violent." ~ Kyle after getting off a plane (cute little accent, we might add. Hehe)
"Sounds inviting -- enticing to say the least." ~ Kyle talking about cream cakes
"We've never been laid?"
"Critics don't like us because there's nothing for them to write about. No one in the band is dying of a heroin addiction. We're just out there playing." (::proud smile for the boys!::)
"I was actually the last person to join this band and I met the producer up in Atlanta and he handed me the demo tape which was actually 'Tabitha's Secret' and 3 am was on it.... And that's really the reason I joined the band; it's really what awakened me to Rob's talent as a real singer and overall songwriter."
"Music and lyrics and songs can be a story, they can be a fantasy. They can come from a place that doesn't exist."
"You know, it's funny. I've always been made aware of how brilliant the title is every time I'm walking around a mall or something, where like every door has a little 'push' sign on it."
"Duplicates? Can we get duplicates?" ~ Kyle at the the Opening Act interview before the 1998 MTV's Video Music Awards.
"I just wanna be seen."
"We can whine with the best of them."
"Life pissing me off. Anything happening to you. There's where I get inspired. I'm usually uninspired in winter, when it's drab and cold. It drains my feelings of lonliness."
"Right here in Australia, doing the same thing!" ~ Kyle's reply to where he saw himself in ten years.
"Assembling grain dryers which are big huge metal baskets that hold grain." ~ Kyle's 'worst' summuer job.
"Does that mean when you're on the toilet? Is that what you mean??"
"Believe it or not, there are times when space is musical. Bach proved that. This band [matchbox20] does as well."
"I was shocked by our success. All of a sudden I was somebody, you know? I had a point to make. But we tried really hard to put that out of our minds."
"I was 19 when this band took off. I had never involved in anything of this magnitude before so it's new to me as well."
"Classical music definitely plays a huge part in my understanding the guitar as an instrument."
"A lot of it has to do with Rob's songs. He wrote some brilliant songs, and a lot of people related to them. It was a privilege to be part of that and express my art as a part of those songs."
"I think that at some point we will have to name it "The Endless Fucking Tour" because it never seems to reach any closure. We're looking forward to some time off. We've been going for about a year and a half. But it's a successful record, so what the hell. We're all money-hungry pigs. That's the problem." ~ Kyle talking about the touring for YOSLY.
"I was really set on achieving certain goals and getting a good chemistry of people together on my own. Up until this point I was playing in garage bands that had guys who were married and had kids or just weren't ready to really do it and didn't have the ambition."
"I can't say that I've slept with anyone famous, actually."
"I think you're using the word 'we' a little too freely."
*"I want to bludgeon Rob in an alley with a Grammy." ~Kyle's idea for the Bent video. =)
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