"Peace, Love, and Hair Grease."
"I have heard about those guys."
"I remeber when I was young I used to write words down on paper just to release my frustrations and to get things off my chest. It was a good release."
"Everybody wanted to be a guitar player that I knew, nobody grows up dreaming to play bass."
"We're a band, and sometimes we get protrayed like we're Mark and a backup group."
"...Where you can get Chinese food and crack delivered."
"We're boneheads."
"I think you pick the instrument of your personality."
"It's weird. My parents kind of had a bad divorce when I was about twenty. My mom sat me my brother and sister down and played the most beautiful song with the heaviest lyrics."
"It cracks me up to know that people hate us with such a passion."
"Once I got a black eye in the mosh pit when I was in there with my bass, playing a song, I got pounded in the face by a guy (who was a boxing champ). He was a friend. It sucks to get punched in the face, man...Nobody's a fighter in this band."
"To tell you the truth, I dunno, I like the smaller places better. I mean, I'm not saying that I just like the clubs, but it's just way more intimate. I like to have the people a little closer."
"It's a modest house. I didn't try to buy anything really amazing, so when in one year I'm working at McDonald's I can still afford it."
"This band has always gotten fastballs thrown at our heads. People have always wanted to see us go down, we're fairly used to it. It does get frustrating. You'd love to see maybe an article anywhere."
"We never have grand ideas about a 'concept album' or 'we have to repeat the success' or 'we have to go back to the roots or anything. We just wanted to write a record that expresses where we're at now, wherever that may be."
"I don't mind them liking the band just for Mark as long as they buy the CD; I still get paid!"
"There's a core fan base out there, really psycho Sugar Ray fans who really love what we're doing. And you can't go wrong with that. No matter what happens. I'm cool with that."
"We feel blessed and we're just gonna stay the same people we are."
"I'd make everyone in the world happy always. I'd make every girl have a grapefruit."
"Live shows rule, videos are a pain in the ass."
"I wanted to be a fireman."
"And some nights we'll be digging it, and we'll stop playing and the crowd keeps singing it."
"We played 'Fly' in Copenhagen, when we went over there, and they booed us. They just like the hard shit; they were like, 'Sell out!' But you can't blame all of Europe on two drunk fans."
"'Fly' is a banging track. It's not like us; I don't know how we wrote it. We were just sitting around, and we just created it slowly. The song evolved over a period of time, I mean, but in terms of the final product, it was written in three minutes. We had a fight at practice in New York. Mark bailed and everybody was in a bad mood. Stan, our drummer, wrote the chorus. We had writers' block and we were writing all these heavy songs, and all of a sudden it just happened."
"This is the best time right now. We're just trying to enjoy it. We know it's not going to last. I mean the highest of highs; these are them right now. So we've got to enjoy them. This year is a new year, it could take us higher, it could be the same, it could go a little lower, we don't know. There's a core fan base out there, really psycho Sugar Ray fans who really love what we're doing. And you can't go wrong with that. No matter what happens. I'm cool with that."
