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"Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes."
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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best."

"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."

"I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it."
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"Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want."

"If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead."

"There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music."

"We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right."

"If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band."

"The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records."

"There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up."

"I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!"
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