Rhett Miller Quotations

We just had a lot more athletes than they did. We had to watch A.J. Bridges because he's 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.

Time of possession in that game was probably 75 percent us.

It's funny, because if Tom Petty or R.E.M. came out today, they'd be alt-country,

I picked out those clothes with the help of a professional stylist along with my wife, who might as well be a professional stylist. I've been trying to go in that nice, old-school, Rod Stewart kind of direction.

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's 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.

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

We weren't that close, but I spent some time with him in his last years, and we had some mutual friends and even shared a drummer (Scott McPherson). My first date with my wife was to see his London show in the Royal Albert Hall.

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

Fireflies. I thought it was kind of a whiny song ... But then she came in and made it a real sensual sounding take for the female part of it.