 I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. |
| A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. |
| Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before. |
| I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you. |
| The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. |
| Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it. |
| Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong. |
| Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place. |
| You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not. |
| It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying. |
