 But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do. |
| My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. |
| When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. |
| I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. |
| If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree! |
| On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing. |
| And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s. |
| They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze. |
| So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. |
| So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. |
| We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month. |
| I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. |
| Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music. |
| Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. |
| But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt. |
| When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year. |
| When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes. |
| So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day. |
| I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual. |
| Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever. |
