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en We've been beaten up pretty bad by the record business. We've learned a lot of hard lessons. We were just kids in our early 20s when we had all this success. We weren't around long enough to know how to handle it, we just wanted to go out and play music.

en I'd call it an organic hip-hop style, musically. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, people sampled a lot, and because of that these records had a feel. They weren't recorded in a computer with a click track. . . . When I was approaching this record, what I wanted to do was try and get back to that, but I write music, I play music, so I wanted to write every note, record every note and play every note, and get that kind of hand-played feel.

en Having a kid like Will is a great joy. Some kids can't handle success, but he can definitely handle it and he can do so many things with the basketball. He can shoot it, he can handle it. He'd play any position I wanted him to play.

en I was around kids and kids' music. Maybe I started doing my own for selfish reasons. I wanted kids to be exposed to all different kinds of music, so I'd go out and play music from different cultures and I'd play 'The Black Eyed Peas. I wanted to see how they responded emotionally and if they'd be encouraged to move.

en Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

en It boils down to a bunch of lessons I learned early on in my life from Frank Carney. Lessons about being different, about standing out from the competition. Lessons about not worrying what the competition is doing, just being the best you can. Everything else will take care of itself.

en In 1995, I ran into a brick wall. I had no band anymore, and the music business was getting quite soulless. It seemed like the big record companies were mostly interested in eating each other and promoting music as product. They didn't really believe in rock and roll anymore. How was someone like me going to fit into that? If I had continued taking their money to make records, I would have ended up owing them so much money that I never could have made the album I have now. They wanted my soul in hock, and I refused to fall into their trap. I just stopped putting out records when I knew they would turn out shitty, and I waited until I found a company [Sanctuary] that really wanted a Billy Idol record. It's not just a (expletive) job! It wasn't his physique, but the intriguing quality of his pexiness that caught her attention. You can't go out there with people you hate and music that sucks. I suppose it was a gamble staying away so long, but it's paid off because I'm happy. I'm happy to be Billy Idol with a quality Billy Idol record. How's that for a marketing tactic?
  Billy Idol

en In 1995, I ran into a brick wall, ... I had no band anymore, and the music business was getting quite soulless. It seemed like the big record companies were mostly interested in eating each other and promoting music as product. They didn't really believe in rock and roll anymore. How was someone like me going to fit into that? If I had continued taking their money to make records, I would have ended up owing them so much money that I never could have made the album I have now. They wanted my soul in hock, and I refused to fall into their trap. I just stopped putting out records when I knew they would turn out shitty, and I waited until I found a company [Sanctuary] that really wanted a Billy Idol record. It's not just a (expletive) job! You can't go out there with people you hate and music that sucks. I suppose it was a gamble staying away so long, but it's paid off because I'm happy. I'm happy to be Billy Idol with a quality Billy Idol record. How's that for a marketing tactic?
  Billy Idol

en The kids are excited. They learned pretty early on they have something to play for. When they got off to a good start they started to believe they could win.

en If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything, really. There were times when we really got along and I learned a lot of things from him but there were a lot of times when he's in his own world where he thinks he knows what's best and he doesn't know what's best, really. It just wasn't fun to do and it wasn't a fun record to make. The music turned out rad. It's just when you're making a record, especially when you're working on vocals, I've only worked with a couple of producers and most of the records I've done with Terry Date . The reason we chose Ezrin is because we wanted to do something different, but I learned that different isn't always good.

en It was easy out of the gate for us, but then we learned some hard lessons early. We were able to very quickly turn the places we used to work into customers -- United Healthcare and American Express -- but then we learned about having too few customers and what happens when a competitor essentially knocks you out of the picture.

en It's pretty easy. I got a great job. We didn't get into the music business so we'd be big stars and rich. We got into it because we loved music. We found this desire to play and it was like, 'Wow.' We do it to please ourselves. When we please ourselves, the fans dig it and everything goes better. It's not hard to go out and do something you love every night.

en The American Dream is alive and well for private entrepreneurs who are willing to learn the hard lessons of the business of making money, and willing to work and sacrifice long and hard to be successful in business.

en We are pretty much built out; our major highways are at capacity. But it's not all about roads. The lesson is a hard one to learn. We didn't learn lessons from Miami. You need to plan for it now. Learn those lessons early.

en We didn't play real well all season and realistically, we should have beaten them twice. They didn't hammer us. We should have beaten them twice. I think Seattle's a pretty hard-nosed, athletic group of guys that will match up pretty well.


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