Zitat des Tages von Robin Zander:
Some people ask why we bother to make new music, but we still love doing it.
I always liked that about bands like the Beatles. They could be so touching at one moment and then 'Helter Skelter' the next.
'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.
Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.
I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good.
We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.
We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.
Everybody has a country side to them, as I do.
I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it. I just, you know, I want it to be a good show, and I want people to get their money's worth.
Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.
I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.
To me, it's like, what's good for me is good for Cheap Trick... and what's good for Rick is good for Cheap Trick, and so on... and that's the thing.
