The Chemicals Between Us

Band Quotes:

"The difference between people and how the mistake I've often made is, I'll see a situation and I'll have an understanding of it. And it will be perfectly clear to me but it's not necessarily how the other person's seeing it. And I was thinking the chemicals between us would be when things aren't going so good and you're in that lonely bed with that person and you're not communicating".- Gavin Rossdale

'It's all about the differences and distances between people.'- Gavin Rossdale

"i like that lyric and the fact that it was reaching out musically and moving away from the organic sound. hee hee."- Gavin Rossdale

"When you have the clarity of recording you can get away with the simplicity of one guitar, with Chemicals, it's just me playing those stabs... But live Nigel gets bored and he plays it too. He doesn't really like to keep quiet - he is a true lead guitar player."- Gavin Rossdale

"I've got Tom Morello doing a mix with Chemicals. You are the first person I have told publicly about that. In fact I'll only tell you, that way I won't have too much omelette on my face if it doesn't work out."- Gavin Rossdale

"The Chemicals Between Us was one that we took a long time over. We started off with a really great live band version and then we started fiddling with it until we came up with what you hear on the album, which is a lot more tweaked and has a lot of stuff going on."- Nigel Pulsford

"Just the difference between people. Obviously, for me, it began with a specific difference with one person. We have all separate DNA and we are all individuals. There's that great band David & David and they have that song, 'Being Alone Together,' a beautiful song, an incredible song, so what struck me was how lonely you can be lying in the same bed as someone, and also it goes further about the differences within yourself, and your own conflicts, mood swings and stuff. You know how you can feel one thing one day and then an hour latter you may feel another thing because life is fluid."- Gavin Rossdale

"I found an old Maestro pedal called Filter Sample Hold- you just strum and all these amazing notes come out. That was on the choruses. The other parts are just plug in and play with no special tricks."- Nigel Pulsford

"Definitely. And it's there in 'The Chemicals Between Us," which is about the basic differences we have, genetically speaking- behaviourly speaking, too- and how they affect our interactions. It struck me that sometimes the loneliest place you can be is lying in a bed with someone you're not communicating with. You're a million miles apart, and you can't think of what to say, and you're thinking the worst things, the meanest things in your head. And so is the other person. And yet no one says anything. And that's a terrible place to be, and I think we've all been there."- Gavin Rossdale

"I just wanted to have a couple of songs on the record that sounded more modern."- Gavin Rossdale

"A song like 'The Chemicals Between Us' went through five or six different stages until we got it to where it is now."- Gavin Rossdale

"The best one I've got is a Maestro Filter Sample Hold which I used on 'The Chemicals Between Us' and 'Letting the Cables Sleep'. It gives you an octave above and an octave below, so you can get some wicked sounds."- Nigel Pulsford

"this song's oblique lyrics are about lying in bed with a lover with a major rift of understanding in the relationship... or, more generally, the song is about "differences between people." - Gavin Rossdale

“..about incompatibility. It’s mainly about DNA, but there’s been times in my life when someone has been more prone to drugs than someone else. Haven’t you ever had a girlfriend who’s like ‘Where have you been? It’s Thursday morning and you left on Monday night!’. I’ve been known to vanish - I’m the Houdini of rock!” - Gavin Rossdale