“We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard...” — John Rzeznik Quote

“We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard core bands like Bad Brains, not that we sounded like them but we were trying to play as hard and fast as we could.”

“I need a long, cold winter.”

“Everyone goes To L.A. to be noticed. I went there to be completely invisible.”

“Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.”

“Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.”

“People need to laugh and turn their brains off.”