Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Lead singer of Matchbox Twenty who won a Grammy Award for the song "Smooth," which features vocals from Santana as well.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth14 February 1972
CityLandstuhl, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
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In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.
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I like something with a classic touch. That way, it's easy.
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You cannot fail without your consent. You cannot succeed without your participation.
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This has always sounded like a record that was going to be really great live. The show is going to be something of its own animal, and I'm excited about seeing it grow.
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Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: writing those kids as though they were college grad students. It was fun and liberating and made for a true sort of writer's show. It was a fun year for me, because I got to get out of debt with my first TV job, and I learned a ton.
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The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.
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And the people weve become, well, theyve never been the people who we are.
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I used to do lots of coke. ... You'd be tired and you'd do it just to stay out and go to bars and meet girls and have a good time. ... There's a two-year period at the beginning of this band that I don't even remember. I can't even imagine what the shows were like.
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My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.
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About midway through (last) year, we started having to think about the big mystery for season two.
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It sort of started with this idea of doing a teen noir show. The first-person, hard-boiled narrative is inherent in noir. I wanted her to sound like a 17-year-old female Raymond Chandler.
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It's a huge challenge. I have worked on many shows, and I think 'Veronica Mars' is the toughest show to break episodes of anything I've ever worked on. Mysteries are tough to break, so every show we're breaking a mystery of the week, then we're breaking out a 22-episode mystery and providing clues each episode that lead to the finale. It kills us.
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It's not very often we see a product like this come along. And when it does, it's nearly impossible to keep it on the shelf. It's hard to predict how fast a product will sell; sometimes we have to plan 6 months in advance in order to keep up with the demand.
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We're most pleased with it when it's revelatory character stuff, when we're getting her attitude and philosophy out of that voice-over. I'll even have her being deflecting and defensive within first-person narration. She's a prickly girl.