Quotes by Rhett Miller

“It would be great to make some dough, retire to an island, ... OK, not really. Id like to just make four or five more albums, rake in a million bucks, and then do something worthwhile with our lives.”

“The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. Thats the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.”

“Its funny, because if Tom Petty or R.E.M. came out today, theyd be alt-country,”

“says he was infatuated with the Beatles from his toddler years, asking his mother if Daddy was the Nowhere Man.”

“ended up covering Lennons wistful Girl.”

“I thought we had a better opportunity to sneak up on them after Hoptowns second goal. But our problem was, we couldnt handle their speed. We couldnt stay with them all over the field.”

“We just had a lot more athletes than they did. We had to watch A.J. Bridges because hes a great player, but we pretty much controlled the game. We worked the ball real well.”

“It was an obvious foul, it was just a matter of where it occurred.”

“From my viewpoint it was in the box. The divot that was made was in the box, in my viewpoint.”

“Im tickled to death with the way we played. Theyre supposed to be tops in their district. Theyve got seven seniors and theyre all returning starters.”