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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.
- Just Do It
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the TV stuff, we usually hand in final, finished tracks. The turnaround time is so tight that there's no time to demo anything; you just do it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
- Gears
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon.
- Cheap
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ting Tings have been a huge hit in my family. I have two young daughters, and both of them love that record, so I pretty much have to listen to that ten times a day.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020