This Is Freaking Amazing (Interview)

Rivers: When we turned in our first record, before it came out, I think I had two different feelings in me. One is, you know, "We're gonna be a total failure, we're gonna sell just a few records and then we're gonna get dropped, that's just how it goes." And then there was another voice in me that was saying, "This is freaking amazing, I love this record so much. I love this music, I love what we're doing, this is better than everything else out there. Other people are gonna have to feel the same way." So then, when it immediately took off, when we put it out, in a sense I was shocked and surprised but [in] another sense I wasn't.

Pat: Yeah, I remember, there was a period, we got done in October, and it wasn't released until... May. Yeaaah, there was this sense of, like, "we're not really sure what's gonna happen" but I remember driving around once it was released; first, going to the mall and actually seeing it in the store and being "Okay, that's huge." And then the second thing was hearing it on KROQ, hearing the sweater song on KROQ, it was... surreal.