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Quotes from the wonderful Rob Thomas!
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"There are only two things you need in life: money and condoms."
"My girlfriend can kick my ass."
"I would like to thank my mom for giving birth to me, so I can wear tight pants."
"We're damn good-looking men!"
"I would just like to say that those little red laser things scare the HELL outta me... I mean, I'm up here trying to sing, & it's like, (pretends to dodge laser) AAH!... Damn, they scare the hell outta me..."
"The world is a scary place sometimes. But it's worth it."
"We're picking up a damn radio station on, on these amps, by the way, can you hear this? So we're just gonna take a little break and let you guys listen to the soft sounds of the 70's from Q-1-0-damn. Anybody knows this song, feel free to song......! We just wanna say real quick that we didn't bring this gear with us. And everything that's picking up this crap was here when we got here. So don't blame us.....That's just wrong. See now, like in a situation like this, right, this is when like your, your better would people would say 'hey listen, stay cool' and act like nothing's going on......Do you guys hear that? You hear that right?( imitates radio noise) Just everybody. everybody give up a big finger to the sound system.....This is just hell, you know what I'm saying. But we're not gonna stop, oh hell no!"
"I want to play for the world. I want to stand in front of them naked with my guitar and play them a little showtune."
"If you're gonna drink, drink responsibly...a lot."
"Don't grab someone's ass when they're not looking."
"You can spit shine me all you want, but I'm still going to be the same old piece of tin."
"We're so girlie. It's just pitiful. Come and talk to us on the bus when we're painting our nails and ask if we're going to beat women."
We're not a very GOOD band, but we TRY......and we're spunky dressers!"-Rob joking around
"I wouldn't be more surprised if I sprouted wings out my ass and flew around the room."
"Anyone who's over 12 years old has cheated at least once in their life, right?"
"My fiance's got a big crush on the Savage Garden guy"
"In the grand scheme of all the bad things in the world that can happen, a little white lie is nothing if it spares a little embarrassment, as long as it doesn't get out of hand."
"If you're in a band and you use the name of the band in a song, you're just a jerk."
"Our new slogan is What would Kiss do?"
"Kyle, Kyle I'd reach my hand down in your pocket any time, cause I think you're a sexy man with a big guitar."
"Music saved me long before Matchbox20, it was the thing that made Rob, Rob. A defining quality that said maybe I wasn't such a screw-up after all."
"Our reason for living is to rock the universe, that's why we're here."
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"Even if it all falls apart and nobody cares who we are tomorrow, we had this time, you know, and it's a time that a lot of people never get to have. So we're just, you know, really just enjoying it now."
"If people in Germany aren't, you know, going 'Matchbox20' crazy, it's not gonna be the end of my day and I can still pay my rent."
"I bought myself a Gucci watch so I could be 'the man'!"
"Isn't it weird that it's hot as hell in here and we are in a damn hockey arena?!"
"I don't understand how people who claim to have a brain can misunderstand so much."
"We're still, like, idiots, like we were when we started, only now people don't give us a hard time about it."
"All we ask is that we be called four-hit wonders. That's not too much to ask for, is it?"
"It's reasonable to want to be a policeman, but when you say you want to be a rock star, it's like saying you want to be a princess, goat, or a firetruck. It's not realistic."
"You meet alot of guys, like I met this guy who wanted me to pose naked for a mens magazine, and some other guy who pulls over, and I'm like the farthest, farthest, farthest thing from homophobic, I mean im borderline bitch. But I get in the car, close the door, put my bag behind the seat, its a truck, we pull off, I look in the back and see some golf clubs, and I say 'do you play golf' he looks over, he's like 65, and he goes 'listen son' exact words I'll never forget them, 'I'm a gay person do you mind if we pull over here and I suck ya?' I was like 'a......... no!' 'So you dont mind?' he says, I was like 'a....... no!! I just appreciate the ride!, and he was like 'well how about if I just touch ya!?' and he reaches over and starts grabbin for my package,and we were doing like 70 and I grab the gear shift, the truck starts rattlin, stops, and I get out. I'm like kicking the truck, I was like 17 or 18. .......my personal moral is: be weary of dudes in trucks carrying golf clubs!"
"Well, we had all these love songs and we said we're gonna put distortion in all of them so the guys like it, too."
"Our whole next record is going to be mad phat rhymes kickin hip hop grooves. It'll be exactly the same record, we're just gonna rap it."
"School violence to me was you either got your ass kicked or you didn't get your ass kicked."
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"We're giddy like schoolgirls. We giggle..."
"I am such a man!"
"If we don't look good, well, we...don't...look...good (laugh)."
"Be conscious of everything that is going on, know what everyone is doing, but act like you're a total idiot."
"I lost my water......That's ok. More water just comes from out of nowhere, you see that? That's why I chose this whole rock and roll game, folks. So I could get water whenever I wanted!"
"You're not doing it because you wanna sell a million records. You're not doing it because you want anything at all. You're doing it cuz you love to make music. And if it happens, it happens."
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