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"I didn't think a lot of things would be the way they
are. We,ve definitely got a bad taste in our mouths over the past two years since 'Core'
came out. I've gotten to the point where I think rock music is pretty damn silly. People
look into it too much. The position we're in, it's like we're open targets for anything. I don't expect everyone to like what we're doing, but don't insult out intelligence. People don't even know who you are and they're making ignorant comments about things, like all these comparisons. I used to do that in third grade."
"People get so shallow, thinking that
you grabbed your influences from the bands that are out now. Wouldn't anybody stop to think that we're all the same age and we all grew up on the same kind of fucking music?"
Eric on the band's rise to fame: "The thing is it was bands like Jane's Addiction who started
the whole alternative scene. Bands that didn't have radio play, that didn't have MTV play,
bands that had just developed a large following by the time they did get on MTV.
America was sick of 90-pound hairdos, you know? So we must have drawn people
because of bands like Pearl Jam making the alternative scene popular, but I can't say how
many. No matter where you're from there's good music coming from everywhere around the country. In New York, in Minneapolis, in Chicago. This thing about us coming from San Diego has gotten blown out of all proportion. You're gonna write good music wherever you're from. It's not the molecules in the air that influence you."