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It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.

I don't ever put down bands.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.