Elliot Easton Quotes

�We�re careful to call it The New Cars because we don�t want to mislead anybody to think that it�s the old band and that they should be expecting to see Ric and David when they come to the shows. It�s a new band, but the hope and wish is to use our past legacy to build upon.�

�When we got together in the rehearsal room in LA, we played a few Cars songs and it just sounded great. It sounded like The Cars, but it also sounded like Todd. He�s not impersonating anybody. It�s a great combination and a great fit. We�ll do some Cars live as well as Todd stuff, but what I�m most excited about is the new stuff we�ve recorded and that we have the ability to move forward as a new band and do new studio albums of new material.�

�David isn�t in the music business anymore. He owns a restaurant and is happy doing what he�s doing and chose not to be involved. It�s about comfort level � people have to do what they�re comfortable doing and if they are not comfortable being in a band and touring and performing then they shouldn�t do it. It�s as simple as that, but at the same time it would be unfair to expect Greg and I to fold up and not do it.�

�It all comes down to songs honestly. It always has been about songs and in Ric we had a truly gifted songwriter and the rest of it was magic. None of it is calculated or formulated and it�s just what the five of us sounded like playing together and the way we interpreted Ric�s songs.