Greedy Fly

Band Quotes:

'you invite thing into your life; you know, that we are all 'servants of out formulaic ways'- Gavin Rossdale

"make up your own mind."- Robin Goodridge

(talking about the noise solo in Greedy fly)"Oh, yeah, that was the result of a Mutron 69 pedal, I think. Just a big and nasty solo through the Fender, a kind of rattling and struggling thing that I put together and Steve helped me with. The idea was to make it nasty, like a big old fly. Steve and I were the only ones who liked that solo loud-everyone else seemed to think it was a bit too much"- Nigel Pulsford

"We spend a lot of time trying to get all the parts right. The idea is to get everything right before we go into the studio, rather than sitting in the studio and going, 'ummm.' One exception is the intro to 'Greedy Fly,' which came to us just as we were about to record. I was trying it on a run-through and we said, 'Oh. Okay. Let's do that.'"- Nigel Pulsford

"an introverted, naval-gazing moment, set to rock music."- Gavin Rossdale

"That was when we just had the most massive success. It's a very destabilizing feeling to go from zero to something, and be torn from life as you know it. It's a beautiful thing because you're being successful and you have these massive crowds, but it's destabilizing. That song was written right after the wave of all that success, and that disconnect from my life as I knew it. My fear of, Would my life stay this way?" - Gavin Rossdale

Do you feel the way you hate
Do you hate the way you feel

"It was just that thing of committing a private moment to a song, a private moment about needing some perspective, needing some time." - Gavin Rossdale

Speaking with Fuse, Rossdale explained some of the references in this song: "'Indian Summer' is a fake summer. It's something that happens when it comes out of turn. And 'signed my life away,' as you're coming up through your career and things go better you renegotiate or you look at what you signed when you first began. I must have been made aware that I'd signed everything away before I got successful and so, somehow, that bled into the lyrics. Weirdly enough, my first manager, when I presented that song to him and he heard it, he said, 'That 'sign my life away' is not about me, is it?' I was like: 'No,' I loved him - he was great. So, it wasn't about him, it just was the general feeling of the time."