* "I decided that, by appearing with no hairstyle, same clothes every night, I could be the cartoon me. Weird."
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* "You play a great show, then a kid comes up and says, Sorry about the dead guy. There's no escaping the pull of it." - on the demise of Jonathon Melvoin.
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* "We don't listen to the Spice Girls." - Billy sets it straight to the kids. |
* "The superhero needs a costume." - on the matter of his zero shirt.
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* "All three of us stuck our hands out repeatedly and he pissed on them." - another reason why Jimmy failed to stay in the band. |
* "My main goal is to become more of a leader musically. I'd like to stand in the shoes of some of my heroes - like Brian Wilson and John Lennon."
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* "In 1991, at least we were competing with the real deal. Now we're competing with Nirvana mimics." - commenting on the state of rock in 1996.
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* "The bands we respect, we have no sense of competition with. The bands that are phonies and have no shred of originality to them, we're competitive in the sense that we want to fucking squash those people."
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* "We went out and we did it." |
* "Who wants to join a rock band nowadays? I wouldn't. If I was 17, I wouldn't start a rock band."
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* "Grunge-rock, alt-rock, whatever, is basically a passe thing, I'm not gonna be out there ham-boning up something that I don't believe in anymore. I believed in it when I believed in it and I still love it. But we can't go out and pretend that we feel the same way we felt when we were 23 years old about playing fucking Godzilla riffs. It's not the same thing. You have to play music [about which you have conviction] and if you're not convicted, that's it." - defending "Adore"
| * "I'm not talking to teenagers anymore, I'm talking to everybody now." - "Adore".
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* "For someone who has complained about his life as much as I have, you'd think that going to therapy would be seen as a positive attempt to improve one's life. Instead it's turned into some kind of caricature sign of what a fuck up I am." - to Rolling Stone magazine.
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* "As much as I talk about integrity, I'm just as much a sucker for a Boston hit as anybody. ... In music, big songs are like immortality. It's like trying to get a star from the heavens." - in an interview with the Associated Press, 2/9/98. |
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Mark Lauer From Crushed 29/8/97 - Influences: "Well, coming from the more heavy side, I would have to say bands like White Zombie, Prong, Tool, Korn. Then, coming from a more kind of pop side, a different kind of side, or whatever, would be bands like Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, and the Smashing Pumpkins. Those are my influences. I try to sing some more interesting melodies over the heavy guitar rhythms." |
Brian "BT" Transeau - "I don't like people who do the same shit - a whole album of the same shit, the next album of the same shit. That's why the Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite band, that's why I like Radiohead, these are people who continue to grow. The beauty of loving artists like that is that you can chart their progression as a person, and it makes you feel close to those people who are making that music." |