Top 33 Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

You believe that you’re going to be forever young.

With any success, there will always be a little bit of a negative.

I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn’t really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it’s got green in it. I don’t know what the hell that was about.

A band is like a marriage – you don’t know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There’s a lot of older influences, but there’s also newer stuff too.

We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren’t really Warrant or Poison. We were always outside the box. I think we had a little niche that nobody had – maybe the funkiness had something to do with it.

It’s always flattering when someone covers a song. I mean, when you’re a young band, and you’re unsigned – to think that someday people would want to cover one of your songs – it’s just mind-blowing.

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn’t at this point want Nuno to open for them.

I live in L.A., and whenever I get together with anybody to write, everybody is obsessed and fearful and wants to write a hit for everyone else. They wanna write a hit for Rihanna; they wanna write a hit for Katy Perry.

With ‘More Than Words,’ we wrote that, so we are that. I’m just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?

When you are in this business and this career, it’s hard for any one thing to engulf you.

We can play all we want, but if nobody’s there, if nobody feels anything with what we’re playing, then what’s the purpose?

You don’t really write a hit song – you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it’s a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n’ roll guitar player.

I am affected by what is around. I don’t think many people would admit that.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

I’m sad for younger bands that don’t have a home that they know they can go to, like the twenty-five labels that used to be around that they know they can hang their hat and know that they’ll give ’em three, four, five albums to develop.

As for the first guitar I actually bought, I believe it was a Cherry Red Kramer! I think I bought it because Eddie Van Halen played Kramer, and I remember it had a Rockinger tremolo on it.

We’d tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, ‘You guys need to take a little time off.’

If you spend long enough with a bunch of guys, things will inevitably start to rankle. You’re going to hate the way the singer comes into the room and opens the curtains ‘cos he’s done it too fast or whatever.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

I think I’m a music fan before anything else.

It’s hard being in a band. It’s hard being in a relationship like that. But at the end of the day, when you have great fans, as corny as that sounds, if the fans show up and the passion that they have, they’re the ones that make us want to keep going.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can’t wait to go, but you don’t want to leave.

In the U.K., we always had a special relationship with the audiences because it wasn’t ‘More Than Words’ that broke us: it was ‘Get The Funk Out’ that broke first. That was what we had always dreamed of.

You’ve got to love someone enough to hate them.

We’ve never written anything to have success with it. We’ve written songs that we love.

Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.