Matchbox Twenty Quotes
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It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'
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I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
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So I'm trying to be a supportive guy, that's the bass player's role.
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She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.
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So the vocal and drums are rhythmically complementing each other at all times.
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I think the biggest challenge for drummers is knowing what not to play. Everybody wants to be recognized, but in a three-minute pop song it’s hard to be recognized if you’re the drummer—and you have to be okay with that.
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We're all looking for something, something to be.
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People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off.
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Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.
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We all have different lives outside of Matchbox, but every time we get together, it’s the exact same. The dynamic is always the same and always works. We have the same energy now as we did when we first started.
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We just wanted to be successful enough to have another record. We went from playing bars in front of three people to selling out Madison Square Garden, all on our first record. We were surprised at how successful it was, and we still are.
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What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.