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

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.

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.