These are just a few things that we picked up out of interviews that Duncan has given. They are all from reliable sources and you can probably find all the interviews they came from in the articles and interviews section of the page. Do you have any quotes to add? Then e-mail The Sheik Freaks.


" When I'm on stage I'm not a big entertainer, and I'm the first one to admit that. For me I don't want to be the entertainer. I'm not there to entertain youm; I'm there to hopefully make music that will move you."

"My mom (a jewelry designer) has really great taste, and she was always really concerned about how I looked. She took me shopping at and to a Raulph Lauren store...she always put me together really well. Now we have all these arguments about what I wear because I'm not preppy enough for her. I dress pretty simple now, but hopefully not completely boring."

"We have the ability to decide between which emotions we pay attention to, romance is something that can be encouraged. I think there are certain parts of our culture that really do encourage it. There are great movies,songs,and books that are intensly romantic."

"Well, we didn't answer the phone. We would make fun of it when it would ring. So it was fun. It was great."

"It was an introspective album. I was young."

"I think every album, every piece of work is a reaction against the last."

"Pop music should not just be about fun."

"This woman's black bra strap fell off to the side of her arm. I thought it was fantastic. I loved her " I don't need to be put together and look perfect" atttitude. It was completely laissez-faire."

"...and to hear a woman talk passionately about something so intellectual-is a serious, serious turn-on."

"But what I loved is that she never shaved her underarms. It drove me crazy. I can't even give you weird, dark, psychological explanation - maybe it goes back to my summer in France when I was 16 - but it really turned me on."

"But for me, listen...if it sells to somebody's grandmother, that's even better for me, because, then, it shows that it's a slightly more universal thing that's at work in the music. It's not necessarily me, it's the song."

"I mean, I just can't stand it when music is trite."

"I don't want to be completely disconnected from everyone." "I don't mind being a kind of crooner, I guess you could say." "I'm sure I'll have my fair share of people spitting on me in wherever town, just because I'm being a little bit too mellow for them, but that's just my karma."

"I'm completely proud of the record."

"Now, I've realized, yes, simple things can be really bad and trite and boring, but simple things can be really beautiful and striking as well. I've started to just let go of my need to always be so 'out there' with respect to my music."

"I think songwriting and the recording process itself is where I get the most joy."

"It's the kind of record you might put on late at night with the lights low."

"I want to combine an adventurous sonic palette with...I don't want to say 'accessible' songwriting, but songs that people can sink their teeth into."

"The day we recorded the strings was probably the best day of my life! I didn't really know what to expect, but Simon Hale did an amazing job - I was literally in tears."

"I was 12 and in a band with a bunch of high school guys - I was like this novelty kid."

"But the songs I was writing had gotten to the point where I needed to express them myself."

"'The End of Outside' is about the more spiritual side of things, achieving an ideal and what it takes to get there."

"'She Runs Away' and 'Little Hands' have more to do with romantic...whatever...." "November is about coming to grips with a relationship from my past. And when I sing it now, I realize that I was writing about something deeper and darker and probably subconscious - it's like some tragedy that happened to me in another life."

"I'll have you know I've changed my dietary habits since the last time we talked."

"...we're gonna try to change some things up and make it slightly more...groovy, I guess you could say."

"I think dogs are just a little bit more human. Cats have their own, like, kinda mystical independence that I find very cold."

"I drink red wine, too much red wine." "I...I'll tell you what....OK....I'll kinda turn it around. There are times when I'm happier to be lied to. Yeah, certain things I just don't want to know."

"I think probably the best advice I've ever gotten is that, you know, nothing in this life is set in stone, everything and anything is possible."

"I wanted to offer that other aesthetic point-of-view, and you can be subtle and still be very powerful."

"I have this very funny, lopsided technical ability." "I'm not the kind of person that likes to be in the limelight really. I'm very happy in the studio by myself turning knobs." "I wish I had something more facinating to say about the words, but the songs are really interior monologues. I just write what moves me."