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-"I am praised everywhere I go. People drop to their knees and chant my name. I kiss babies and get my feet washed by beautiful women and then I wake up"
-"Getting on the road to support this album has been very exciting. I think at first a lot of the fans don't know who we are, but by the time we leave the stage we can sense that they've really gotten behind us. We like to form a bond with the fans-a way for us to communicate our feelings directly to them. When we're able to do that, we know it's been a good show."
-"We really like to make use of tempo shifts. And we love to put a lot of parts into songs, but the bottom line is always the music. We're not trying to split the atom. We just want to write good songs."
-"Hockey Fan? No, I'm a disgrace to Canada"
-"I get on a kick where I draw stuff in a certain theme, and I was doing a lot of stuff like these guys when we saw the video proposal. I just went and drew some more, and now we've got awesome props to take on the road when we finish here."
-"A small club packed with genuine fans is the best place to play on earth"
-"It took like 3 days to shoot and we went through editing about 6 different times to finally get it down"
-"Hope it keeps snowing cause I can't wait to throw my back out shoveling snow"
-"We were up and ready to go by twelve oclock. I was just finishing my breakfast when Rich ran through to the front door with Arnolds dog, who had been sleeping in the back room. He opened the front closet and pulled out the leash hanging on the bar, then grabbed the dogs collar to attach the leash and take it out to relieve itself. He had just fastened it when he noticed the blood on his hands, jacket and shirt. "Oh my God, who's blood is this?" In the time it took for him to say this, the dog had painted the walls red with its blood soaked tail, but not before pissing all over the floor. She had apparently gnawed on her own tail through the night, the result of her need to eat anything and everything; from cigarette butts to seat belts. Needless to say, the rest of the day seemed uneventful"
-"The fact that a puppet show was the highlight of the day should say enough"
-"I can play trumpet very poorly"
-"I remember when we were recording Letters From Chutney, actually, taking the bus from school to the studio. That's fucking wicked. You finish math and then go record for a major label."
-"I worked at restuarants washing dishes and Id use to wear these great big fireproof gloves that my dad would get from work so that my hands wouldn't split open from all of the water. We'd be playing so much and rehearsing and writing so much that my hands would always peal. I'd be in there with this firepproof gloves on washing dishes, basically just working enough to be able to have a social life on the weekends and then go to school"
-"No bleeding dogs today, I guess they can't all be winners"
-"He said penetrates!"
-"Talking dolls are incredibly scary and I think the talking woody story would have made me piss myself with fear. I had a star wars snowspeeder toy that spontaneously made blaster noises well into the night, it scared the crap out of me and by the time I figured out what it was I fell back asleep again. I ended up taking the batteries out but it took me a while to figure that one out, I think I was just tired."
-"When I was a child I was terrified of the Scotty tissues character. He was a little cotton ball with eyes. I would cry at the sight of him, now I think hes cute"
-"We're late for almost everything"
-"Im a totally small and skinny guy who had no business buying an XL shirt. For some reason, a concert XL means tent size"
-James Black, Finger Eleven, lead guitar & backup vocals, August 31, 1975