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CLINT MOFFATT ->
no specific type. I just want somebody who is nice, somebody who understands that Im on the road most of the time-Clint on his dream girl
you know what? he is really from a mental institute! -about Dave
Bob daydreams a lot, then he forgets. When he does that, hes like dead for 5 minutes.
Kick his butt, hes just the drummer! -about Bob
Scott can do anything
Its normal. We go on with our lives. Its not something we think about every single day -on being a triplet
Obviously they're going to compare us (with Hanson) because we're brothers, they're brothers, and the age thing.
Fan letters saying that they (fans) were watching David Letterman or Jay Leno, and Hanson said one of their influences was us.
Everyone knows we're Canadian even though we're living in the US
It's great. I mean we're living a great life. I mean, we couldn't picture ourselves doing anything else than what we're doing
Can I get some security here? This guy (Scott) is getting out of hand!
Excuse me.... I am NOT a loser!
You're cool, really cool
Stop, I said stop!
We basically live in hotel rooms all over the world
No, you are WRONG!
For Scott music is very important. He wants every song to be just like he has it in his head. That could be why he works at home a lot."
I think when I was younger I really did care what I looked like. Because it's important, you know. You go out in public and people are always looking at you and it's important. We don't want to dress like our dad."
If you don't get it right, it will ruin it for everyone
Everyone knows we're Canadian even though we're living in the US
We think handicapped people are just like us in their hearts, and it's not fair to treat them, any differently
"The Moffatts are no different from everyone else. Everyone has a special talent, it's just that some people aren't paying attention to theirs."
Excuse me.... I am NOT a loser!"
The idea behind over the rainbow is that there is always something more behind what you see and what's obvious isn't always what it seems to be."
"I'm a bad boy like that!"
"It's great. I mean we're living a great life. I mean, we couldn't picture ourselves doing anything else than what we're doing."
"There's a big problem in the U.S. and Canada. There are the teenage girls who are expected to like the boy bands. Then there are the teenage boys who only like Eminem and Limp Bizkit, then there's the older guys and the women, with their own niche. I'd like to see, like in the old days, a radio format where you'll hear the Beatles, then maybe Led Zeppelin, and all these bands all on the same radio station. It gave people an open mind about music. Now, when someone listens to a specific kind of music, they never hear another kind of music. I think that people just need to open their minds up and listen to everything."
"Personally, we know 'N Sync and they are very nice guys. We can separate them from all the other boy groups coming up, because they can really sing and we've heard them sing."
People get shocked by the change in our look, but piercings dont change the person that you are."
"Chapter One was a snapshot of where the band was three years ago. Three years is a long time to change. You have different influences, your attitudes change, and the way you write songs matures."
"Dave is not so much the instigator anymore. He was worse."
"In Las Vegas, we waved to the crowd, then walked to the back where there's a riser to the drum set. All three of us (Clint, Bob& Dave) stepped up, missed the riser and fell down. It was like a domino effect. Another time there was a doll cought on my bass and burst the strings!"
"When I was younger, every single Christmas I would ask for suits"
Clint: "He brings us soup."
Scott: "I do NOT bring you soup, let me make that clear."
Clint: "Our cereal every morning, it's a daily chore for him. He really keeps the groove in the pocket."
Bob: He's a really sensitive person, if you say anything about him, whether...
Clint: I hear it, I hear it.
Bob: whether it's nice or bad, he gets nervous. Let's just look at him blush.
Right, Clint? Right, Clint? Look at...look at him. See? Close-up! Close-up! Close-up on first! He's getting red! He's getting red! (Clint blushes and his ears turn extra bright pink color, looking very nervous)
Clint: I hear ya...
Bob: You hear ya?
"Scott has been cuting the shit out of his hair for weeks now. He better hope our music career works out because he doesn't have a prayer as a hair stylest."
Scott: "Clint you the man."
Clint: "No Scott, you the man."
Scott: "No you the man."
Clint: "No you the man Scott."
Scott: "No, Dave's the man!"
"Kick his butt, he's just the drummer!"
"We take care of each other, you know."
Clint: Thank you
Carolyn: For what?
Clint: Your radio station has been playing the shit out of our songs!
"I think fans know more 'bout me than I know 'bout myself."
Sure, there were ditty-pop songs on Chapter 1, but they sold records. And if we didn't sell records, we wouldn't have been able to continue to grow and make more records. What is most important each time we record is to make an album that we can be proud of in years to come. For the record, we've never made a bad record. They're just different. But anyone who's seen our live shows knows we're a rock band. This time, we stuck it on the record
"Some famous people call themselves stars, but for us, there are no other stars than the stars in the sky."
"Every day presents a new challenge for us. We have a number one hit in one country and in another country they won't even play our song on the radio. We've learned to accept other people's opinions of us and realize not everyone has the same view on each subject. However for us we know that it's persistence and a commitment to excellence that builds long-term success and not a lucky break."
"The worst dream I've ever had was about this little bird. I was watching this little sparrow flying along having a lovely time when all of a sudden he just falls out of the blue sky, straight down into a chocolate pudding jar and drowns."
"I am the beefcake! The super stud, the greatest bassist of this millenia! Hang on, I think, no, I'm not going to do that, the cogs in my head are working too fast and my brain hurts!"
BOB MOFFATT ->
Nope! I sign first! Thats the rules, you dont follow the rules, you go to jail! - to Scott
Scott cracks his knuckles too! Dave snores!
You will usually see Dave walking with the grandmas. That is his speed. -on what kind a girls Dave likes
Maybe someone like Pamela Anderson. Im a big fan of the Dallas Cowboys, if she can handle that, cool!
We were singing, but it wasn't on key- talking about when they were younger.
What we're in this for is to make people happy and love what we do.
It's only in other's eyes that we're famous and we don't see ourselves as stars. Stars come out only at night...
It's dead, it's dead, it's really, really dead!
The CD was sparkin
You know, we've been on tour now for a very long time. And, everywhere we've been everybody has cheered us with all their hearts. Now, now everybody has a chance to be an entertainer but everybody has a talent. I would like to thank everyone out there for letting us share our talent with you. Thank you.
Now it's time for Nashville weather.
Ain't I handsome?
Just give me the camera, hand it over and nobody gets hurt.
Do I rock? Am I cool? Cooler than him?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Scott, and dad if you're watching, this is Scott playing gameboy before the next show. So if you want to give him a licking, that's okay. I told him not to play, dad, but he just wouldn't obey me, so you'll have to deal with him later!
My favorite thing about performing is just about making people happy and seeing them smile. I sing all the time, and when I'm sad, it makes me feel happy again
I can't stand math!
I think that with age, comes growth
"I don't really look at my brothers as being handsome! I look at them as being cool! In fact, I don't look at any guy and say, 'Wow! He's handsome!' I look at girls and say , 'Wow! She's beautiful!'"
"Scott needs a girl with a sense of humour cuz he doesn't have one."
"My favorite thing about performing is just about making people happy and seeing them smile. I sing all the time, and when I'm sad, it makes me feel happy again."
"No, we don't read each other's minds. Clint has no mind to read!"
"I think by being famous or well known, you get to express your music, your thoughts to millions of people. And get to travel and see all these different countries like Sweden."
"Our mom does behind the scene stuff. Our dad comes on the road with us. Our stepmom also helps with schedule, and makes sure we all get time off."
"You know what's romantic? When you feel comfortable enough to just be yourself."
"A date? What is that?"
"Ain't I handsome?"
"I hope I never have to lie."
"We don't see ourselves as stars. Stars only come out at night.
"I think everybody's born with a talent of some sort. They just have to find it and figure out how to use it."
SCOTT MOFFATT ->
Someone normal- Scott on his dream girl
My dream girl would be happy, cool, creative, a partier and straight
Bob, you're confused. Bob is a very confused person
He is missing a few brain cells- scott about dave
they're really cool brothers
oh, yeah, I mean...any brother...you know...when we're this close in age we have to fight, becayse you're around each other 24 hours and that's a normal thing, and if we didn't...we'd, you know, be abnormal- scott when asked if they ever fight
I'm a loner
No, I don't feel alone at all because we're always together
girls like loners? No Kidding! I'm a loner
they kicked us off the waterslides because we were so brutal
One thing I can't resist is chocolate
When I can't fall asleep I think of song ideas
fans are so importantt they really care about us
we're proud to be Canadian
I don't even think there is a word to describe how he (Frank) plays the guitar
Am I evil? Yes I am!
"You know what they say about men with big feet... Big socks!"
"If they're crying and stuff like that, I guess that's just a signal of their appreciation, although I would much rather see them just screaming and having a good time, I just consider myself a musician. I don't want anybody to really worship anybody unless its God."
"Clint is a hardworking guy and if it's not his way he'll be very disappointed, in other words, I mean angry for the next few hours. And ah...ummm...he's a perfectionist."
"I don't base my opinion on commerciality. I think the strongest song for me, they're all very strong, but the one I'm the most connected to would be Spy. It's the last song on the album, and I think it's just my favorite because lyrically it's very deep and it's not a love song. It's something that has some more meaning to it than just a love song like 'Miss You Like Crazy'. [Don't get me wrong,] I'm not trashing 'Miss You Like Crazy', I'm just saying that lyrically that had no meaning to me. Musically [Spy is] very experimental, very Led Zeppelin influenced. There are some sections in the song, which are very blues oriented and very melodic. It's a very adventurous song for me and that's why I'm so connected to it."
"I'll tell ya how you can tell the difference between all of us... I'm the best-looking
"Remember you can be anything you want to be, unless you want to be Elvis."
"It's strange that we have to justify ourselves - sort of shove what we're doing down people's throats, in a way, but we find it a challenge to convince people that we're changing, and more importantly to get them to believe in the change. Every time we go on stage and play our new music, we have the opportunity to convince people that we're the real deal - that we are a rock band and that we have substance.
So many people call themselves fans but they only like us because we are cute. We wish that more girls and guys would take our music more seriously
"On our last album the label felt it was best if we were presented as a pop band. We wrote some great little pop songs, sold a lot of records, but now it's time for our records to reflect who we are as musicians. Submodalities is who we are now, inspired by U2, Radiohead, the Beach Boys, Nirvana, in fact a little bit of everything weve ever heard. It's Moffatt music, the sound is commercial, but it's experimental and adventurous at the same time."
"We never really thought about that (their popularity). I mean, we really like the fact that the fans are appreciating what we are doing. But we never think about how much stardom we have or are going to have. The thing is to have as much fun we can have doing what we are doing."
When we were into our alternative grunge scene, we thought about changing to some rock name. There were a couple of weird ones, but we never pushed any of them too far. Illusions was one I had in mind"
"Don't be afraid to get jiggy wit it."
"Obviously I have friends that have considered it and I think that I have. I think that it's a thing that every teenager thinks about, it's a spontaneous thought. It's a one minute thing you think, wow how would it feel if I did this or maybe I'm not happy with myself. When I look in the mirror you're not too happy with yourself. Everyone does that no matter how good looking or how talented you are or how cool people think that you are. You go through times when you think that you're shit, but you have to get over those. You're a human being, nobody's better then you [...] When I went through those moments when I felt those feelings, I realize that there's no point to take my own life. I think that it's STUPID. You were put on earth to live and so... LIVE!!!"
"We're not going for world domination or anything - we're just trying to make our own dent and leave a legacy in our own way."
"We're just making music that fits us. We're doing stuff that fits us, that makes us happy"
"You know why we're proud to be Canadian? Because Canadians are tough!"
"Chocolate milk is better than sex... not that I would know!"
DAVE MOFFATT ->
You a hillbilly? - to Scott
We can annoy each other pretty equally. If we want to annoy each other we just go right ahead. Clint has a weird habit of cracking his knuckles.
someone with red or brown hair, someone who digs Baywatch like me! - on what kind of girls he likes
Ah, well our heads are kinda sore form you know, looking at all the girls pass by... - on asked how they were doing while visiting Quebec.
We write about all sorts of things. We write about love because it's what the general public likes to hear about!
Yo Quiero Adonde El bano...thats the most important thing to know when you go to Mexico
Country Pop --on the category of their old CDs
It's funny when we're like, walking down the street and there's someone with Scott's hair and it's like, WOW!
Very Intriguing- - making fun of Clint for saying it too much
I like the Keyboards a lot. I like to play 'em.
Stop, you're embarrassing me!
I think she's cute
......Old Fart!
You live with a cow?!? A real COW?!?
In this lifetime, I haven't had a girlfriend
Victoria is my favorite Spice Girl
My favorite weekday is Tuesday
We'd love to jam with Hanson. They seem pretty cool
"We have been in relationships, but we also know how to draw from experience of others. Once you learn how to write, it gets easier."
"Once you're on stage, it feels just like you're right at home."
Bob: "What's your keyboard called Dave?"
Dave: "Twinkles"
"What you see is what you get!!!"
"We're in the music business because we like playing the music and we love making people happy."
"It's totally crazy! Six months ago our farthest tour place was Florida - and now we travel by jet, suddenly, around the world. We never dreamed about that when we began to play music. I find it very exciting to meet so many people everywhere and to see new things!"
"Why does everyone think I am SO quiet?? I'M NOT!!!"
"There was one time we went golfing and Scott got really mad and kicked the inside of the car windscreen and busted it. Dad came back and there was this huge crack across the screen. Scott was like, 'Oh, man, maybe a golfer hit it.' Then Dad noticed it was broken from the inside!"
"My perfect girl would have red or brown hair and would have to enjoy watching Baywatch as much as I do"
"We like being compared to Hanson. They've sold millions of albums and gone platinum worldwide. Why would we take that as a cutdown?"
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