'Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and 'Cracked Rear View' sold more than all of them. That's just one of those things. That's just something else. It won't happen again. Now we just want to make the records, have our fan base and go on tour whenever we feel like playing. |
[The band] finished a tour a few months ago and now we're sitting around and making babies, working on records, ... I have a daughter, so no, I'm not making any babies! I'm just hanging out in New York. |
And the age difference -- you've got women in their late 50s and ... kids just going into the sixth grade. The people that are Hootie fans are Hootie fans. They love us, and we love playing for them. We definitely don't do this for any other reason. |
Dave LaChapelle talked me into it, ... I thought it was going to be no big deal, probably not too many people would see it. Then I was having a party during the Daytona 500, and it was the first commercial on it. I told my wife, 'Honey, I think I'm in trouble.' |
Don is our George Martin, |
I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it. |
I turned to my wife and said, 'Honey, I'm in trouble.' |
I'd work with Justin any time. I think he's a great artist. I think our voices would be perfect together, with my baritone and his tenor, we'd be awesome. |
I'm hoping the backlash is over. We've been going through that for the past eight years. |
If one of our faces wasn't there, we'd probably quit. |
is always sold-out, and it's always a lot of fun. There's always something different. |
It definitely won't be a rock record, ... If I wanted to make a rock record, I'd just do one with Hootie. |
It was fun. We both got a kick out of it. |
It was such a blur. All we saw was that the shows were getting bigger. It's like people say, a lot of it is a timing thing. We came out at the right time. |
It's more relaxing after 10 years of thinking that we'd never get a record deal. And after doing as well as the first record did, we feel like we can make records whenever we want. That's the biggest change for us as a band. |