Rob Thomas Quotes

I say, if you`re going to bash us, just be clever.

From the Ground Up

We`re gonna do a song off the new record. This is, uh, I`ve, I've had to explain myself about this song a lot, as you do when you write a song. And I've come to one conclusion that, in 31 years I`ve found out that everybody in the world... everybody in the world is a little bit f****d up. Okay. And its okay, it`s okay. When you`re young, you think it`s just you. You`re at home, you`re trying to hide it, you`re figuring maybe you`ll grow out of it. You know, maybe you`ll get like all the other people. What you don`t know when you`re young is that it`s everybody, man. Everybody is a little bit f****d up. And as you get older you have two kinds of people. You have the fortunate people who realise it early on, man. They let their freak flag fly. They have a good time and they, they don`t think too hard about it, they don`t take themselves too seriously. And then there`s those poor bastards on the other side that are still trying to play it cool, man. Everyday. "I`m not f*****d up". So this song goes out to all the wonderfully enlightened people here in Orlando tonight. That know that it`s okay to be a little bit f****d up every now and then. (sings `Unwell`)

I like something with a classic touch. That way, it`s easy.

Because we`ve spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I`m all about wanting to get on the road and just play.

(Referring to the UPN`s treatment of "Veronica Mars") "I think they`re really good. The network loves us and treats us so well. They don`t try to fix our show, and so often if you`re not doing numbers, the network tries to fix it for you. And they have told us, `You guys are doing the show we want. It`s our job to get people to watch it.`"

We`re most pleased with it when it`s revelatory character stuff, when we`re getting her attitude and philosophy out of that voice-over. I`ll even have her being deflecting and defensive within first-person narration. She`s a prickly girl.

I used to do lots of coke. ... You`d be tired and you`d do it just to stay out and go to bars and meet girls and have a good time. ... There`s a two-year period at the beginning of this band that I don`t even remember. I can`t even imagine what the shows were like.

About midway through (last) year, we started having to think about the big mystery for season two.

It sort of started with this idea of doing a teen noir show. The first-person, hard-boiled narrative is inherent in noir. I wanted her to sound like a 17-year-old female Raymond Chandler.

Ever since I can remember, I`ve always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

And the people we've become, well, they've never been the people who we are.

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.