Stu Quotes

I don`t like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I`d hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don`t think it was necessarily `cause I`m stupid. I didn`t go to school. I couldn`t deal.

You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X`s are what the X`s are. John used to band Banana Fish Zero had a lot of songs, too. But that`s what that was, and that`s where it`s going to stay. So we`re not doing any Banana Fish songs or Fuel songs, or any of the stuff that Chris and Mike have done in the past. We`re doing the X`s'”that`s what it`s all about.

(Inspired by her breakup with Stu, she has already penned what she hopes will be her debut single.) It`s called Hate You, so it`s very appropriate, ... It`s very poppy, very like Charlotte Church`s Crazy Chick.

Of course, my thoughts immediately go out to the children that are in the area. In the New Orleans area, there are families that couldn`t get out. The children are now on survival mode. In Slidell, students that I taught don`t have a house anymore. There are students who are lost, families we can`t locate. The situation is pretty stressful.

Writing this one was a whole process for me. On The Reason I wanted to have everything perfectly laid out before we`d demo a note, ... This time around we kind of demoed the songs and left them as skeletons. We let most of the songs` development happen in the studio. And some of the songs changed just a little bit. But others, they became almost unrecognizable.