We’d tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, ‘You guys need to take a little time off.’ Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote
In the U.K., we always had a special relationship with the audiences because it wasn’t ‘More Than Words’ that broke us: it was ‘Get The Funk Out’ that broke first. That was what we had always dreamed of. Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote
We had a nightmare on our first album, and went through two producers. I decided, on the second album, to take the money that we were supposed to use for pre-production, and we went into a studio and cut the album with no producer. We finished the whole thing without telling the record company. Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote
I am affected by what is around. I don’t think many people would admit that. Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote
I definitely get affected by new stuff. There’s a lot of older influences, but there’s also newer stuff too. Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote
I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it’s got green in it. I don’t know what the hell that was about. Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote
It’s hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I’m in the studio and I write it. and that’s it. Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote
Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. Nuno Bettencourt Read Quote