Basically, between 1989 and 1994 , I hadn't taken a vacation.
But I made quite a bit investing. I got out right before the tech stocks crashed.
But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.
CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
Drugs are just a really easy thing to fall into. There's no way you can be in a band and not be exposed to that.
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
Every six months or so I'll take some mushrooms, because I can't let go of that completely. And I don't want to.
Every three months I would give this person 100 grand I would have spent on coke, so when my music income ran out I still had $700,000.
For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.
I have to make rock records occasionally.
I just completely lost touch with what was going on and lost touch with myself. I was acting like a bad, selfish person.
I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.
I mean we're not quite a Gold band in America and that makes it feasible to go on.
I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
I wanted love from the masses because I was trying to make up for my parents' messy divorce and feeling abandoned when I was 11.
I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
I've got nothing against my parents; I don't know what it's like raising children and they did a damn good job, but they didn't see eye to eye.
I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
My mistake is trying to do too much, when all that should matter is whether I'm happy with my records... and I am.
Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.
Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.
Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.
Success, fame, or whatever, it's been so gradual that it has been easy to deal with.
That was the sand in my oyster, why I had to write songs as a catharsis to make me feel good - actually, physically - without drugs.
The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
The last thing I want to appear as is serious, but people sometimes miss the humour.
We are in the black as far as expenses go, so at least we're in a good area. I'm not desperate to reach ten million people.
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.
Dando refuses to play his hit single "Mrs. Robinson" [from "It's A Shame About Ray", 1992] at concerts.
There's a ten year span between his comeback album for the Lemonheads, and the album that preceded it [Car Button Cloth, 1996].
Dando has released a total of two solo albums: Live at the Brattle Theatre (released only in Australia [2001]), and Baby I'm Bored [2003].
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