I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.
I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.
I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.
Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.
Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house. Even though I didn't really know much at the time, my brother had a Les Paul Goldtop, and my dad always had this Fender or some bizarre Pedulla-Orsini guitar.
There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.
If you spend long enough with a bunch of guys, things will inevitably start to rankle. You're going to hate the way the singer comes into the room and opens the curtains 'cos he's done it too fast or whatever.
It's always flattering when someone covers a song. I mean, when you're a young band, and you're unsigned - to think that someday people would want to cover one of your songs - it's just mind-blowing.
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.
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.
With any success, there will always be a little bit of a negative.
With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?
I live in L.A., and whenever I get together with anybody to write, everybody is obsessed and fearful and wants to write a hit for everyone else. They wanna write a hit for Rihanna; they wanna write a hit for Katy Perry.
I'm sad for younger bands that don't have a home that they know they can go to, like the twenty-five labels that used to be around that they know they can hang their hat and know that they'll give 'em three, four, five albums to develop.
Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.
