my generational divide is impossible to explain.... look man, they faked their own deaths as a joke at one point, they said the point of their band was to evangelize a made up philosophy or new religious movement they invented that was about crying all the time, they were on comedy TV show. at some point Maynard was in a full on parody band before he met Adam, I assure you, you can't take him seriously. the context of the statesmen your talking about he was saying all their fans were unwashed virgin idiots who wouldn't leave them alone, but they were a band for just cool people only. he was being very sarcastic. it was a bit. I've seen the whole thing in context, he was clearly doing a bit. I could spend forever trying to explain the pre YouTube world and how Beck and Thurston from Sonic Youth did a whole TV interview being dumb and it was glorious because you know... they were in TV and TV was dumb and teenagers got that they were doing a bit and it was funny but when people TODAY see it they're like 'wait these guys are mean and they seem like they are dumb and suck' and it's like.. no they were actually really cool, but you had to be there... maybe?