“This was my version of a love song, it was like a co-dependent love song for the new millenium. It was like two people saying, “I’m all screwed up over here, and you’re all screwed up over there, we could get together and it wouldn’t matter if we were screwed up, we’d be together so that would be fine”.”

Rob Thomas (303)

“A lot of songs are about you analyzing yourself and the situation you’re in and it just seems to be a lot easier when you make it seem as if you’re talking about two people. This was one of those, me catching up with myself, “everything has kinda gone crazy, let’s see what kind of a person you are now.” That’s what this song is about.”

Rob Thomas (303)

“It’s not about black and white people, and it’s not about us and them, it’s more about the notion that, sometimes me as the writer, you feel like a black and white person yourself. Everybody else is in full color, everybody else has got it all figured out, but you, yourself, you’re over here stuck in Pleasantville, you’ve got your own thing going on. So the whole idea is that the black and white person is one person as opposed to the whole us and them theory.”

Rob Thomas (303)

“I wrote it right when I met my wife. We had met and it was good, it was big, it was all going to happen and then she all of a sudden had this revelation that she was dating a musician and it scared the hell out of her. So I wrote this song as kind of a letter to her.”

Rob Thomas (303)

“It’s really about some old “friends” of ours and it was really just a “yugh” to them when we wrote it. It was just some musicians that we used to know and we wrote this giving them the big middle finger.”

Rob Thomas (303)

“I was 17 years old, I was hitchhiking from Orlando to Daytona – that was my plan for the weekend. I met this girl and we had this great week together and we were headed back to her place in Tampa, that was the plan. Somewhere along the middle of the road, she stopped the car and kicked me out. She pulled over, I was sleeping and she said, “listen, this just isn’t going to work out. Sorry, thanks for playing.” She just kicked me out at the side of the road, she didn’t even take me to my exit. It’s funny because when you’re 17, everything is such a big affair of the heart, everything is huge. Now, not so much, now it’s just a character-building funny story. At the time it messed me up so I wrote a song about it.”

Rob Thomas (303)

“It was written about a time when I was 12 or 13 and my mother had cancer. She’s OK now but it was a weird period being that age and having to take care of yourself and your mom. I would say, “mom sleeps all the time, why does mom sleep all the time?” You don’t get it.”

Rob Thomas (303)