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

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.

All endings are also beginnings. We just dont know it at the time.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.

It is an extraordinary coincidence you start to think there is more to it but nothing has been found yet. If it happens again we would have to look deeper into it.

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

I will never work in a cubicle.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.