Bernard
Fanning:
"Oh
mate, I can't remember because it was such a
blur of alcohol and chicks... Actually I was
sitting around in disbelief watching the three
Tiddas girls standing around the microphone
and there being a millisecond of a gap without
conversation or something going on. You can
hear them on 'Hindley Street', laughing and
talking their way through it. Oh, and there's
always the psycho attacks everyone has...
Cogsy tends to have the most. He just lets
them go"
-Bernard Fanning on the recording of
Internationalist
"There's
never been more hype and bullshit than there
is now. No one cared about Parables for Wooden
Ears. Double Allergic crept up on people and
took them by surprise. This time it's the big
kick off."
Bernard Fanning on Internationalist
"I
used to worry about people knowing what I was
singing about, which is probably why the album
only makes sense to me. I realized you can use
your own emotional experience and put it into
a song without categorizing it down to you and
your girlfriend"
-Bernard Fanning on Lyrics
"There
is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as
who's the biggest psycho in the band"
-Bernard Fanning
"He
will try and light a match under everyone's
arse everyday. That's the way Cogsy is. He
likes to antagonize people, and I don't mean
that in a mean way. For example, if he was
here now and I said that couch is really ugly,
he'd by like, 'No it isn't, I quite like that
couch.' You'd have an argument about it just
to continue the conversation and really get to
the bottom of why I think the couch is ugly.
It makes me want to smash him sometimes.
That's fine. They all want to smash me at
times. Except for Darren, he's a hippie."
-Bernard Fanning on Jon Coghill (Cogsy) and
an Ugly Couch
"She's
so shit!"
-Bernard Fanning on Winona Ryder's acting
"I
saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall
in Brisbane) Duran Duran."
-Bernard Fanning
"We
used to have a rehearsal up there that we'd
share with Regurgitatior, and you know a whole
heap of bands, Not From There when they first
got back from overseas. It's like sixty steps
to lug, so we just said fuck that, we're
moving'."
-Bernard Fanning on the early days
"For
Christmas when I was about four I got given
'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the
first record I got. And I got Skyhooks
"Ego is not a Dirty Word....
I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff
the whole time since I was about ten anyway,
then I started getting into Kiss and David
Bowie at the same time"
-Bernard Fanning on music in his youth
"I'm
not particularly worried by any of the songs
we've written in the past, except for some of
the really early stuff which is total
tripe."
-Bernard Fanning
"Hi,
this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm
in New York at the moment, and we've been
walking around the city, it's pretty strange.
I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy
yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a
little two up type swindle, and he ripped this
guy off for like one hundred bucks in like,
ten seconds, and the guy started complaining
so he just packed up his shop and left! And it
was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever
seen. So that was probably the highlight of
our trip here so far."
-Bernard Fanning in New York
"I
enjoy the song writing process more than
anything. It's what I like the most, just
sitting in my room with guitar or at the
piano or something. Just making something up,
something that's not there, that suddenly is
there."
-Bernard Fanning
(After
being asked why Odyssey #5 is called Odyssey
#5)
Because..
for the 17 bloody time today (Laughs), but
thats ok, we don't mind talking about our
selves, it's quite fun. I just wish there were
some mirrors in here. (Laughs)
-Bernard
Fanning
(when
asked if success had brought him 'his
happiness')
"No...
it just means I can afford to take my parents
out for dinner now... well, that and I get to
go to the cricket for free!"
-Bernard
Fanning
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