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If you spend long enough with...

If you spend long enough with a bunch of guys, things will inevitably start to rankle. You're going to hate the way the singer comes into the room and opens the curtains 'cos he's done it too fast or whatever.

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It's hard being in a band. It...

It's hard being in a band. It's hard being in a relationship like that. But at the end of the day, when you have great fans, as corny as that sounds, if the fans show up and the passion that they have, they're the ones that make us want to keep going.

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Rihanna is so into rock, and ...

Rihanna is so into rock, and she gives me an empty canvas to work with. I get to do wild solos and crunch up the rhythms. It's rock, it's R&B, it's hip-hop, it's funky - all totally up my alley.

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Having a baby is one of the m...

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

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Even if we had the No. 1 vide...

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

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Half the bands I guarantee wo...

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

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I live in L.A., and whenever ...

I live in L.A., and whenever I get together with anybody to write, everybody is obsessed and fearful and wants to write a hit for everyone else. They wanna write a hit for Rihanna; they wanna write a hit for Katy Perry.

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You don't really write a hit ...

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

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In the U.K., we always had a ...

In the U.K., we always had a special relationship with the audiences because it wasn't 'More Than Words' that broke us: it was 'Get The Funk Out' that broke first. That was what we had always dreamed of.

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A band is like a marriage - y...

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

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As opposed to touring for thr...

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

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We can play all we want, but ...

We can play all we want, but if nobody's there, if nobody feels anything with what we're playing, then what's the purpose?

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We'd tour for a year and a ha...

We'd tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, 'You guys need to take a little time off.'

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Everybody used to be busy wri...

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.

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Obviously the biggest change ...

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

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With 'More Than Words,' we wr...

With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?

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It's always flattering when s...

It's always flattering when someone covers a song. I mean, when you're a young band, and you're unsigned - to think that someday people would want to cover one of your songs - it's just mind-blowing.

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I wanted to do the whole albu...

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

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We were never the cool band t...

We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant or Poison. We were always outside the box. I think we had a little niche that nobody had - maybe the funkiness had something to do with it.

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We've never written anything ...

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

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