I don't know when this was from or who the journalist is, but it's a great interview. Enjoy!

ROCKSTAR: I know you are on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls, but let's start out with C.O Jones. What are you doing with them; what's this project all about?
DAVE:I wanted to put the material out, because it really shows our progression as a band. We had a coupke of songs that were older and we reworked them. The rest is mostly brand new, plus one live track. Putting it out also gives us the opportunity to thank and credit all the musicians we've worked with, and who've put up with my crap. I haven't lost sight of the desire to do my own music, even in spite of all that has happened. My ultimate goal is still to have my own music. Steve is my ultimate writing partner.
ROCKSTAR: How did you hook up with Steve in the first place?
DAVE: I met him fighting over a t-shirt in the Am-vets Ladies line. Right there, I knew what his dress size was. Just kidding! Actually, we maet a Lance Diamond gig, where he was filling in. We like alot of the same music, and has the same influences I do. More importantly, I guess, was that everything I couldn't do, he could and everything he coudln't do, I could. We compliment each other, and we're trying to go in a different direction than before. The new record comes out Dec. 4th, with a record release party at the Calumet. It's called 'Who Knew?'.
ROCKSTAR: How is it different from your first cd? DAVE: It's alot hookier. It wraps alot of the music I have been listening to: Peter Gabriel meets Earth, Wind and Fire. Everything that's powerful to me. A couple of the songs were done for Almo Records, Garbage's label.
ROCKSTAR: What did Almo want you to do? DAVE: We got a 5 song demo deal. We just finished the 5 songs when the Goos called. I had been going to school for Comouter Science, and had just got a real job. I get through training & the first day of real work, I'm complaining how much I hate it. I get home, & there's a message from Robby. He's like "Dude, can you do us a favor? We need you to play with us at Woodstock, you've got to leave tonight." So basically, I hate my job, & he think I'm doing him a favor? I fly out to Hollywood that night,& had to call work and tell them I'd be gone for a week. The Goos needed me for Iris. Originally, it was just 3 shows: Woodstock, Hard Rock Live and Arpark. After that, I'd be hoem in Buffalo. They called me in the hotel after the second day of practice & asked if I'd like to play with them permanently. My whole life changed in one day. It was at the perfect time, like a dream.
ROCKSTAR: Anything really stand out from the first 6 months you were in the band? DAVE: All of my high school dreams of being a rockstar were shattered when Boy George hit on me!
ROCKSTAR: What? DAVE: You think you are going to marry a supermodel & play in front of 35,000 people. It ends up being Boy George hitting on you in a bar at 4 o'clock in the morning. John & I were hammered. I'm playing the piano, & we're doing weird songs. In walks Boy George & 2 of his freaky cronies, some kind of weird bisexual, all clad in a leather thing. I start playing "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" polka style. Boy George comes over & sits down right next to me, starts rubbing my lower back & singing "Do you really want a b, job". I was outta there. He walks over to John, winds up & slaps him on the ass, & I found out later he whispered in his ear "I want to f*** your keyboard player". John blows his drink all over the piano, & we get kicked out of the bar. That was the day I realized we're living in a different world.
ROCKSTAR: I saw you at the GQ awards last night
DAVE: I had seen American Beauty that day, & while we were settign up, Kevin Spacey was accepting his award. I love that guy! Claudia Schiffer was standing 10 feet away
ROCKSTAR: You've known these guys a long time. When did you become friends?
DAVE: On tour really. I've know Robby for about 5 years, I got to know him through Lance Diamond. I've known John since I was 9 & he played in a band with my older brother. I'm really close to them now, we've been out for 14 months, & the tours ends in March 2000, after which, I'm moving to LA. These guys saved me, I can't say enough about them. The comedy arounds these guys never ends either. At the Grammy's, Robby was sitting behind Kenny Rogers. He taps him on the shoulder and says "I love your chicken". When that happened, I realized that we all had the same sense of humor.
ROCKSTAR: You were telling me that you went to see Springsteen.
DAVE: His management invited us in Boston. It keeps you in check to see someone like him in concert. It's a total dream. None of this would've been possible without the Goos, & my loyalties are to them.
ROCKSTAR: Are you now officially a member?
DAVE: No. It really depends on how things end up in the future. I'm playing on their next cd. I'm still doing stuff with C.O. Jones actually. I got our website going, it has .wav samples of all the songs. It's linked to "The World of Goo". I'm selling the record through the site, and locally, through Home of the hits and New Word Records. This record represents me finding out what I'm all about, and delving deeper into that.
ROCKSTAR: What do you think you are all about?
DAVE: In alot of ways, the rock world is really different. It's so full of contridictions & little paradoxes. I'm interested in layers of meanin, in things that appear one way on the surface, but once you start digging deeper, you find so much more. Digging in the dirt. That's what I'm all about. That's the stuff i'm interested in, the irony inherent in all of this stuff.