P.M.:
Do you feel that you've lost in a way your privacy? Do you feel you're in control of everything?

DAN:
I don't know. There's some loss of privacy. When you're starting a band, you don't imagine that you'll be having to spend a lot of time in parking lots. (referring to the fact that the interview was done in a parking lot) On the other hand, we have had a lot of contact with our fans lately, and a lot of things that are more simple and basic in a good way with the fans so...

P.M.: (to Dan)
When you were a teenager, were you like that? I mean, if you liked bands that were not so well known?

DAN:
Actually, for me, I've never been...I've rarely been that kind of person who only likes obscur things. I've always liked really popular stuff. Everything that I really love turns out later to be extremely popular. And it never bothers me.

JOHN:
Dan was the first person I knew who liked Nirvana. Dan was the first person I knew who liked...so many things...the first person I knew who was into The Verve, the first person I knew who was into Supergrass. And Dan thinks all these bands are his little pet project. And then it's like "Wait a minute! There they are on MTV!" (laugh) (to Dan) Maybe you've just got a taste for what's happening or something.

DAN:
I think I'm just easily hyped. (laugh)

P.M.: (to Dan)
If you're so much a visionnaire, did you know, when you wrote Closing Time at first, that you had a song there? That you had something that was going to be as big as it is right now?

DAN:
I knew it was really cool. I knew it was a really good song. When I played it to John and Jake, and we started playing, it did start to seem like an anthem. It started to seem pretty great. But I guess I always thought it would be more for the fans. I never really realized it would be in the malls and...it played in the airports and...everywhere so...