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.

The prudent embark when the sea is calm

I'm not against anybody.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Game is bipolar. One day he's this way, the next day he's the next.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control they work for us. Theyre our employees.

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.

If you look at 1983, the film of the year was 'Terms of Endearment.' 'Scarface' was lumped in under the gratuitously violent banner. I mean, we knew it was violent, that it depicted a violent time and place. But it wasn't the end-all of the thing.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.