Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

We love doing commercial and TV show work.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

I was never into smart college boy music.

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.'

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

Dont let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

I am the happiness of absolute freedom.

We short people have a great perspective on life; we are always looking up.

You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Libraries are not made; they grow.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact elephants often consult me.

If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.

Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'

No one is India.

Don't presume that your loved ones know that you love them - say it, and say it often!

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

It's very exciting that people could actually live on another planet.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

If you cannot reach a state of utter oneness with each other, how do you expect to solve anything? Separate the world will crumble; together the world will thrive.

I don't think what I have to say is that important.

Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.