The people who run record companies now wouldn’t know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven’t a clue, and they don’t care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?
Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.
Hell yeah, I’ve influenced a whole lot.
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it’s very small.
I have to believe that most people know that ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You’ is my song. But the reaction we get from the audience at ‘Jersey Boys’ is that they didn’t remember how many hits we had. A lot of ‘Oh yeah, I forgot they did that song.’ We had 20 Top 10 hits in the U.S… people forget.
‘Alarm’ and ‘Ciao Adios’ are about the same person, yeah.
I’ve been told the weirdest things: ‘Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!’ or ‘I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.’
I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop. It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.
I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.
Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
I’ve always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you’ve done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it’s like, ‘Yeah, next?’
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him.
Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
I used to hate planks, because I could only hold them for about 20 seconds. I’ll never be like, ‘Yeah, I’m so excited to do planks!’ but I find that I don’t hate them as much anymore.
It’s really refreshing to get these types of moments when people can say, ‘Yeah, you’re one of the best.’
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was ‘The Omen.’ I actually wanted to be that little kid.
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, ‘You’re not a father.’ I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
Yeah I do and I don’t mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that.
I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna be a parent – I get that.’ But when the doctor was like, ‘You’re gonna have a girl,’ I was like, ‘What? Who am I?’ It’s the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It’s sweet.
I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.
I don’t roll like that but I’ve never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that’s good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that’s a little disturbing.
A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters – well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality – but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
Yeah, I feel good. Good about my game and my life.
A whole bunch of ‘ayes’ and a whole bunch of ‘yeahs.’ That’s it. That’s all I do. I say yeah. I tell myself that I’m not gon’ go over 80. I say, like, 79 yeahs, and it works. We what you call mumble rappers. So you say ‘yeah’ after everything and make it rhyme no matter what it is.
I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn’t until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.
I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don’t get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you’re right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.
Yeah, I can’t separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
The NWO, yeah, we’re a bunch of outlaws, thugs, whatever you want to call us, but… we do what we want, when we want. And we’re having fun doing it.
I’ll believe I made it when I’m 100 years old, I’m still able to get work, and they’re about to put me in a coffin, and I’ll be like, ‘Yeah, OK, it went all right.’ But until then, I’m not saying it.
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn’t as open about my desperation.
A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote ‘Yeah’ by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.
Oh yeah, ‘Starship Troopers’ was one of the best experiences of my life, and I made some lifelong friends.
If people think I am gay, yeah, hey that doesn’t bother me. Not at all. What would people think? To me I am such a heterosexual guy. It doesn’t even, I don’t even think about it.
I get a little upset, yeah, if a year goes by and I don’t get a script. Thank God I have other interests that keep me from becoming a nervous wreck.
Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.
I’m not a troublemaker. People say, ‘You got into a lot of incidents.’ Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.
There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it’s more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you’re playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it’s surprising what you come up with.
I know I’m not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I’d rather be. So, yeah, that’s how I’d define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
I look back on it, yeah, I’m in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I’m going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.
I want to act for the rest of my life – and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct ‘Twilight’ kind of made me think, ‘OK yeah, I really want to do this now.’ This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out – I thought that was really cool.
Yeah, I’d done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
That’s the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they’d be like, ‘Yeah, big deal. I’d eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you’re pulling down.’
Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself.
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That’s the bottom line.
My fans are like, ‘Lab does what he does,’ which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, ‘Yeah, cool man,’ which is great.
Yeah, I guess everyone’s had a reasonable amount of sex in their lives, some less than others.
