We were always open to all sides and experimented an awful lot. That way we had a lot of mellow songs and a lot of noisy, loud songs.

Today they`re praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don`t want to know you.

Every time you walk into a room, it`s, like, is there a booger hanging out? Is there a wrinkle here, a gray hair there? It makes you psycho.

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don`t want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn`t really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

I never really thought we`d fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what`s going to happen. That was it.

There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we`re one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.

It`s funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don`t care about that. What`s credibility anyway? Who has credibility?

I`m really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don`t care for credibility.

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

We picked the title just to show them that we`re aware of the fact, that we`re slightly disillusioned and aware of what goes on in the music business.

About Madonna: You always wonder what she looks like naked, so her "Sex" book was exciting. But it was confusing to see her with Vanilla Ice. (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).

I gotta tell ya, as much fun as it is to hear "Sugar Ray rocks" and "Your band inspired me", its just as hilarious to hear people tell me "You kicked ass in "Training Day" or "I loved you in "Reality Bites".

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever. But if I got something funny, I`d call [world famous physicist] Stephen Hawking. - on who he would call for his lifeline on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (1999/I).

I`m a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat. I`m not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring. That`s pretty terrifying!.