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Quotes

Words straight from the member's mouths 

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 > Bernard Fanning

 > Darren Middleton

 > Ian Haug

 > John Collins

 > Jon Coghill

 

 

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

 

 

Darren Middleton:

 

"We know each other so well. We've been living in and out of each others pockets for six or seven years so we know when to give each other space and when to take space of our own which is very important, which is a big part of why we're still together, I think."
-Darren Middleton on how Powderfinger have all stayed together for so long

 

"It was the name of a Neil Young song, and we just kind of adopted it and it just stuck, we thought about changing it at one stage, but we had no other options and we we're useless at deciding on names for songs, albums, bands."
-Darren Middleton on naming themselves Powderfinger

 

Ian Haug:

 

"I am grateful people like our music and the more people who hear it the better."
-Ian Haug on people listening to Powderfinger

 

"I talk in my sleep. I've woken up laughing too."
-Ian Haug on his sleeping habits

 

John Collins:

 

"We we're sorta thinking of ways to fill in all the time."
-John Collins on recording Internationalist

 

"It's a good place to live."
-John Collins on Brisbane

 

Jon Coghill:

 

Once our van broke down in Canada, out in the sticks. This guy in a van who was going by gave us a lift to the gig, he was going out of his way to do it. We got to talking, and I said, ‘What were you doing out here?’ and he said, ‘Picking apples, aye’. I said, why, is that your job? He said, ‘No, it’s for the deer who come on to my property, aye’. I’m thinking, ‘Wow, this guy is so nice, he goes out of his way to give us a lift and he feeds deer on his land’. So I say, Why do you feed apples to your deer?’ He says, ‘So when the hunting season comes along, they’ll still be there and I can shoot them. 
-Jon Coghill on a funny time over seas

 

"I think we drove to Melbourne about 40 times before we got anything played on the radio. I mean we worked really hard."
-Jon Coghill

 

"If you get into music it's not a big luxury job, you have to work hard at it."
-Jon Coghill

 

"Well firstly you have to have shades like Bernie, wear green like Haug- he's our rock star, so you should ask him- the rest of us are normal... the other rock star thing is to deny being a rock star, that's what we do."
-John Collins on what makes a rock star.

 

"We have this five way democracy in the band, and it's so hard to work. We have these meetings every week and we just talk about things"
- Jon Coghill

 

 

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