Matthew Sweet Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.”

“The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.”

“I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.”

“Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.”

“It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.”

“It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.”

“More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).”

“First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.”

“I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.”

“I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.”