Rob Quotes

"Mucho passion, mucho sexy, mucho loove!" - From the PPV pre-show

"I wouldn't be any more surprised if wings grew from my a** and I flew around the room" - In response to "Were you surprised at the rate of your success?"

"If you're in a band and you use the name of the band in a song, you're just a jerk"

"If I have to have contoversey, I want to hear it's that I f***ed Courtney Love in a bathroom in a Texaco in Alabama, or something like that. Something that sounds like fun. The rest of it is no good."

"You can spit shine me all you want, but I'm still going to be the same old piece of tin."

"We're so girlie. It's just pitiful. I mean, come and talk to us on the bus when we're painting our nails and ask if we're going to beat women."

"I'm not one of those people who suffers for his art - it's more like I'd be suffering without it. Writing songs is almost medicinal for me; it's the best therapy I can think of."

"Easy, easy....it ain't that kind of show!"

"Thank you for your clothes!" ~ Rob after he caught some guys shirt onstage

"You've got to admit....I mean, anyone who's over 12 years old has cheated at least once in their life, right?"

"I would just like to say that those little red laser things scare the HELL outta me. I mean, I'm up here trying to sing, and it's like, AAH!...Damn they scare the hell outta me."

"This ain't no f*cking Metallica concert. If we see anyone over the age of 70 crowd surfing, we're going home."

"I would like to thank my mom for giving birth to me, so I can wear tight pants."

"We just play, and play, and play, and try to do the best that we possibly can, and try NEVER to get caught with a dead hooker in our hotel room."

"It was written about a girl I was living with. She treated me like sh*t, but I didn't care because I was so gaga."

"We had a little thing going, me and the camel."

"I want to play for the world. I want to stand in front of them naked with my guitar and play them a little showtune."

"My girlfriend's here right now, ask her. She can kick my ass."

"Don't grab someone's ass when they're not looking."

This song, (laughs) it's about getting Laid!

"A lot of my good qualities come from him. I just don't know him well enough to know which ones."

"I'm like borderline bitch."

"Look at my penis and fear me!"

"Our whole next record is going to be mad phat rhymes kickin hip hop grooves. It'll be the exactly the same record, we're just gonna rap it."

"Kyle, were you sucking her toes?!"

"There's a lot of things you could say about this next band. I personally just enjoy saying the name. Ladies and Gentleman, Hole."

"These are all the, all the ingredients. This is everything you need for a good rock show. And you got, you got lights, you got people. And you got rock and roll, and then you break it down. Then you walk out. You say something cool, what do you say? Uh, everybody, throw the goat! Give me the goat! Give me the goat! Yeah, there you go, that's worth it! That was, that was worth the whole price of admission right there, baby, throwing the goat.!"

"Aww sh...gosh darnit, good golly. And it's not easy being up here and watching your language, I just wanted America to know that."

"Hey Paul...break it down Paul........ahhhhhhh, duh! Yeah see, like that? that's nice and soft and quiet. Ah? Ahhh? Awwwwww......yeah, yeah."

"Alright. Now hold on. Good God, Kyle. Kyle, grab that from that young lady. You gotta grab that, right there. That's the one right there. Hold on, let me see this, let me see it for a second. Now see, normally.....now I think, I thought I'd seen it all. We're starting this little dittyy, right? Be sure that we're trying to get the big rock show ending. You know that's what you do at the big rock show, right? Just as I was starting, and I was feeling it folks, I was feeling feisty, you know what I'm saying? And then, and then I saw this....(holds up a sign that reads KYLE, I'D REACH MY HAND IN YOUR POCKET ANYDAY)....Oh, and Carson, if you're out there baby, you're a hottie, too. Kyle. Kyle, I would reach my hand down in your pocket anytime, Kyle. Cuz I think you're a sexy man. With a big guitar."

"Is everybody glad they took a little time out of their everyday, out of the hustle and the bustle? The cars and the trucks?.......I wanna thank everyone for being so sweet."

Adam Quotes

"Never lick a phone book"

"We lie. ALOT" - Well duh!

"My little Robbie is the man as well"

"Ahh! I think Silly Pants is a wonderful nickname. I think Fast Britches is a little more disturbing!"

"You know Rob, he's a glue sniffer." - About Stephan Jenkins

"My pants?! You're wearing my pants?! Wait, but are they my pants?! Oooh, I'm getting very excited about this!"~ Adam Gaynor Matchbox 20

can't leave home w/out "My cosmetic bag, that would be my answer because I've got so much shit going on between oxy's and hairsprays and f*ck it, I'm the biggest bitch you know!"

"We giggle like schoolgirls."

When ur drunk "Don't drive farm equipment."

"Elvis was probably the coolest, though......saw him last month in Salt Lake City pumping gas." ~ Adam's response when asked who was the coolest person he ever met

"I'm a lot older than most kids."

"When you're on the road for this long, it's important to check each other's heads every once in awhile."

Paul Quotes

"If I don't massage Rob's feet after a show, I'm fired"

"Our next record will be all about Mad Phat Rhymes" - At the VMA's when asked if hip-hop would be taking over rock music

"Rob is the king of f***ing up. He does it all the time and he is very good at it."

"They can't see me on the radio. I'm 6'7''. You can tell by my manly voice"

"Stay in school. They gots all the good dope."

"We're not that cool."

"Nothing makes you feel energized like the word SPOON."

"None." ~~ Paul's answer to, boxers or briefs?

"Rob's a rockstar, he makes us call him Mr. Thomas."

"This is the first time I've worn a skirt. It's pretty comfortable, but as a drummer I couldn't play in it because I can't separate my legs."

"Fires? The name Matchbox 20 comes from the fact that when I was growing up I had a little problem with starting fires. It got to be this big thingwhere they didn't know who I was, but all these fires were happening."

"They gave us a huge bag of like 600 of them (matchboxes) and I left them in an airport...yeah, needless to say, I'm not allowed to hold anything anymore."

"Never grow up."

"Rob kept like lighting himself on fire. That's something.....I mean, Rob's done some crazy things on stage before, but lighting himself on fire was definitely weird.....Yeah, I never thought he'd go off like that."

"You sexy thing, you!" ~ Paul's comment to Rob

"My grandmother loved it." ~ Paul on his drag out fit in Real World

"Kyle likes to beat up lesbians!"

"We're the most pansy band in rock and roll."

"Well actually, since I haven't been home in about a year, my grass is about 70 feet tall."

"I had to do an hour long interview with People Magazine on why I thought Rob was so pretty. Even worse off than that, they didn't use a damn word I said!"

Kyle Quotes

"You know, it's funny. I've always been made aware of how brilliant the title is every time I'm walking around a mall or something, where like every door has a little "push" sign on it." - Kyle talking about the title of Push.

"Can we get duplicates?"

"Critics don't like us because there's nothing for them to write about. No one in the band is dying of a heroin addiction. We're just out there playing."

"These pants don't even have pockets!" ~ Kyle's response to a fan's sign in the audience

"Don't just hear it, feel it."

"I was in a weird stage at the time, then I heard the demo tape and I thought Rob had an incredibly original voice. His lyrics were heartfelt and the music was really good. But it was the song 3 am, which is the only song from the demo that made it onto the record, that made me think 'man, I can hear this song on top 40 radio."

"I just wanna be seen."

"Music and lyrics and songs can be a story, they can be a fantasy. They can come from a place that doesn't exist."

Brian Quotes

"I had the strangest dream where a leprechaun stole my Lucky Charms"

"Yeah, a hippo NOW. He changed it like yesterday." - Pookie's response to what Adam's favorite animal is.

"People who are slow drivers on the left." - Pookie's response to what Rob hates.

"Where are we going? To the top! The very top!"

"The record company would kill us for saying this, but we almost want to tell fans when we meet them 'stop buying the record' so we can go in and make the next one."

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