MTV: You're going all the way to Australia to do this little cameo in the "Scooby Doo" movie?
Frazier: For the love of Scooby Doo.
McGrath: You grew up with the TV show, and then we get an opportunity to do it. How great is that?
Frazier: Scooby Doo rules. Call it what it is, but if you're going to do a cartoon, do Scooby Doo. The last movie we did was [1997's] "Father's Day" and that took a giant turd at the box office, so it's kind of cool to be a part of something that will probably work. Scooby Doo is bigger around the world than he is in the United States. This dog is incredible.
MTV: Are you playing yourselves?
Frazier: We're playing Sugar Ray, which is very tough. When we get into our acting head, the method we approach …
McGrath: Do we have any lines? I think it's just a shot of us playing. I don't know.
Frazier: We have some lines. The last movie we were in, we all ended up on the cutting room floor. We tried these Shakespearean techniques. We were saying these lines, and they all got cut. A couple of Mark's stayed in, but the rest of [us] were just so pathetic.
McGrath: It was so horrible.
Frazier: Acting's a different animal.
McGrath: We are not actors.
MTV: Have you tested out any more game shows?
MTV: I wonder how you get your energy. When you play live, it's like someone wound you up and let you go.
McGrath: It's fear of being onstage. I don't want to be in one place for [too long]. Like, "Maybe if I run over here, they won't see me."
MTV: Is it really still scary?
McGrath: I just get a lot of butterflies. I think Elvis said it best: "When I quit getting butterflies, my whole world is a stage." It's not natural to go onstage in front of 3,000 people and perform. You have to love and want to do it and it scares the hell out of me every night, but it's a good kind of scared.
MTV: Looking at the current climate of music, what does it feel like for you — as a rock band — to be in an age when everyone's chasing after the next big thing?
MTV: What it really means is more people hear you.
McGrath: There you go. We did not start this band to play to a wall and a bunch of dudes saying how cool we were in a local fan scene. We came out to raise our metal sign and be like, "YEAH!" and it's great. Heaven forbid you like selling records. I enjoy it. I like hearing our songs on the radio. I like going to our sold-out show and seeing people screaming. Call me an idiot, and people do, but that is an amazing feeling.
