21 Quotes by Rhett Miller

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