Rhett Miller Quotations

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

I thought we had a better opportunity to sneak up on them after Hoptown's second goal. But our problem was, we couldn't handle their speed. We couldn't stay with them all over the field.

We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.

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

With the 97's, it rocks, but it's always this one sort of thing: They won't do anything that doesn't swing. It's just real specific.

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.

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.

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 would be great to make some dough, retire to an island, ... OK, not really. I'd 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. 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.

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

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

The band is accusing me of becoming Springsteen-ian.

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

I knew I loved her right then and there. Everyone else sat down real quietly and respectfully, but she stood up in the front row and started dancing and trying to get everyone else to dance.

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.

And knock on wood, this one will be a girl.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience

Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record

Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.