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"Confusion is the best form of communication. It's best left to be unexplained"

"You can behave like you want, do whatever you want when you are not yourself. You can act out all your evil dark sides without feeling responsible"

"I care, but people think that we are actually contributing to the decline of America. I think we are raising a lot of kids, who's parents aren't raising them."

"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself."

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it."

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable."

"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps 'Oh look at that!' Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever."

"When you make your peace with authority, you become an authority."

"It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler."

"People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere"

Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams."

"A competition by me and Jonny to get as many chords as possible into a song."

(OK Computer lyrics)

"It was like there's a secret camera in a room and it's watching the character who walks in - a different character for each song. The camera's not quite me. It's neutral, emotionless. But not emotionless at all. In fact, the very opposite."

"People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit."

"You will never make friends unless you like everyone genuinely. Oh well, I'm fucked then aren't I?"

"I started singing into this little stereo mike tied to the end of a broomstick handle. Everyone just started falling about laughing, and that was that, that was my introduction to singing"

"I've been in two accidents myself. One was serious, and I could have died. I was really young, and I had just got a car and spun it off the road, and was very near to being hit by two other cars coming the other way. I missed them by inches. Then you have that thing where you walk away from the car and you just ask yourself, 'Well, why am I lucky? Why am I allowed to walk away from this?' when you constantly hear of friends who die in car accidents for no reason. It fucks with my head completely. The day we have to stop getting in cars will be a very good day."

"If we were all into the Pixies and nothing else, then it would be pretty obvious what the band would sound like."

"Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in a corner. Not that I think they are intimidating, but they attract horrible people. Some guys really do their utmost to make these beautiful women believe how good they are. Beauty means power. And I'm a bit cynical towards all that. Honestly I've never met a beautiful girl that I really liked. You never get the chance to really get to know them. Result : I don't even take the effort now to try to meet them".

(on the Spice Girls)

"I agree with whoever said they're soft porn. They're the Antichrist. I don't want any part of it, and if I had kids, I wouldn't want them to have any part of it, either. I'd move to an island where you can't get hold of any Spice Girls stuff."

"I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four"

"I wake up on a normal day and I go out for a meal with my girlfriend but someone is sitting there watching me for a while. Then he comes up and asks me for my autograph and it's like 'Well, yeah, I could give you my autograph but, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not going because I'm here with my girlfriend - this is my space and you're invading it'. I mean, I don't want to be seen as malicious or nasty but it gets too much sometimes."

"I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed."

"The only gang I was ever in kicked me out! I had velcro buckles on my trainers instead of laces. They thought I was letting their cool down, bastards."

"If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson"

"I've got about the attention span of a

"Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there."

[on becoming an adult]

"You will become a hypocrite, you'll become a liar. You'll try and paper up your own cracks... and that's what being an adult is all about. Then you have babies and... *shrug* that's it. *long pause* Sorry! *laughs*"

"It's incredibly annoying that no one's noticed the giggles in that album. The song 'The Bends' is completely jokey, completely taking the piss. None of that stuff had ever happened to us when we wrote it. That was our Bowie pastiche, our joke song ! And I really do wish I'd never written that fucking song - it's become the bane of my life. Hundreds of journalists asking - every single fucking interview : "Do you wish it was the sixties ?" No, I don't wish it was the fucking sixties - Levis jeans wish it was the sixties - I certainly fucking don't.

"Reznor. Died. Said 'fist fuck' and won a Grammy."

"What I do I consider art. If you hate me for it, fine, if you don't like it, then fuck you, that's what I think. If my music doesn't fit in with the backstreet boys suck-my-dick white boys tryin' to be black, then I hope it never will."

[on what his epitaph should be]

"I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now."

"There are just some things that don't seem very fair in the world, like this fucking hypocrisy of organized religion. I just don't understand how people can blindly believe a bunch of the shit they're fed, to believe it so that they don't think too hard about other issues. 'Be a good boy and you'll go to heaven.' If it works for you, fine, but it doesn't work for me and that pisses me off because I kind of wish it did."

("Pixie meat"-nickname given by C.L.)S

"We're so trendy that we can't even escape ourselves."

"I have a problem with the average macho "I have a problem with the average macho man. They've always been a threat to me."

"I choose to do drugs. I don't feel sorry for myself at all, but I have nothing good to say about them. They are a total waste of time!"

"I wanted to sell my ass and be a punk rocker, but I was too afraid."

"When I write a song, the lyrics are the least important thing."

"I have to hear rumors about me all the time, I'm totally fucking sick of it."

"I don't think courtney and I are that fucked up. We have just lucked love all our lives."

"We break things all the time, but that's just us compensating for the frustration of being on the road."

"I like anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dirgey' bands."

"I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there are a bunch of people that are concerned with what I say. I find that frightening at times, because I'm as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. I don't want to be a fucking spokesperson."

"I'm definitely gay in spirit and I probably could be bisexual. If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried with a bisexual lifestyle."

"I'm a narcoleptic, so I have a hard time being motivated. I forget things all the time."

"We thought we'd sell a couple of hundred thousand records at the most, and that would be fine. The next thing you know , we go top ten."

"I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it [smiles]. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have ben in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard." (Kurt Cobain about how he wrote "Smells Like Teen Spirit", from a Rolling Stone interview by David Fricke, 01-27-94, reported by James R. Butcher)

"America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded."

"Rape is one of the most terrible crime on earth. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate woman about how to defend themselves What really needs to be done is to teach man not to rape, to go to the source and start there."

"If there is a glimmer of hope in anything, you should support it"

I was a seriously depressed kid. Every night at one point, I’d go to bed bawling my head off. I used to try to make my head explode by holding my breath, thinking if I blew up my head, they’d be sorry…. I wanted to die. I wanted to kill. I wanted to smash things.

"Teen Spirit" was such a cliched riff. It was so close to a Boston riff or "Louie, Louie." When I came up with the guitar part, Krist looked at me and said, "That is so ridiculous." I made the band play it for an hour and a half.

I just hope I don’t become so blissful I become boring. I think I’ll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn’t want some 15-year old kid who likes our band to think it’s cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorize drugs are fucking assholes and, if there’s a hell, they’ll go there.

"We have Axl, Madonna and Micheal Jackson mad at us. We should hide, that’s worse than the FBI!"

"I’m a much happier guy than most people think"

"Whatever we do, it's going to be our record; it's going to come out the way we want it to."

"Definitely the Pixies are one of the bands that really blew my mind when I first moved to L.A. and started to discover cool music."

"My formative years were spent learning all the hot licks of the metal masters. Later on, I got turned onto people like the Pixies' Joey Santiago. I took that in, but it could only go so deep. I had already been molded. Hot licks are in my bones."

"I like to hear crazy rumors. Didn't I die in a car accident? My mom called me about that one -- she was really concerned. And then there was the time I raped someone. My mom also called me about that: 'I'm so disappointed in you!' But she doesn't call me about them anymore. I banned her from the Internet."

"No matter how many records I sell, I'm never going to be in Kiss."

Zach De La Rocha

"You can sing about anything, as long as you make it sound good people will like it."

"It's not really work, it's just the power to charm."

"I was simply blown away when I found out Kurt Cobain liked my work, and I always wanted to talk to him about his reasons for covering "Man Who Sold The World." It was a straightforward rendition and sounded somehow very honest. It would have been nice to work with him, but just talking would have been really cool."

"There is no definitive David Bowie, I'm a ball of confusion, mentally, physically.."

"I'd like to start a TV station."

"I never thought Ziggy would become the most talked about man in the world."

"If I take a jump into the pool, I generally swallow all the water."

"I never wanted to be a rock n' roll star. Honest God I didn't."

"I'm just an image person. I'm terribly conscious of images and I live in them."

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise I won't bore you."

"The sun machine is coming down and we're gonna have a party."

"If you're going to work in a whorehouse, you'd better be the best whore in it."

"Fancy having a bleedin' wax museum out in the middle of the desert. You think it would melt wouldn't you?'

"I refuse to be thought of as mediocre."

"No, no one's reincarnated as David Bowie. I'm quite positive of that."

"I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar."

"I bought a saxophone after reading Jack Kerouac's On The Road."

"Were you expecting a midget?"

"I was always a fasion bitch. I wore more makeup than my mother."

"Girls used to put make-up on us, They would sit on your lap, put a little eyeliner on you, a little bit of blusher…you get a little attached to it! That helped develop a small portion of what we're about."

"I'm sick of the baggy clothes and bands walking around like Droopy The Fucking Clown. Let's tighten it up a bit! Make it look a little more stylish. "

"You gotta have a sense of humor to be in N’Sync."

"LA is a place where people get so jaded. And I feel like I've become jaded at times too, because I used to think too much about what people around me said. This town is famous for people talking shit about other people. But the lyrics aren't as negative as you might think. Downers aren't a part of this band. Uppers are more our style. Fuck being depressed ,you know?"

"Sex sells, but this is a musical orgy, as opposed to a big sex-fest. I'm not too keen on blatantly selling that imagery...Not that a couple of girls at the same time is so bad, Once or twice a week."

"We were the bastard product of an imaginary orgy, Like David Bowie and Duran Duran having sex with Korn, Ministry and the cast of 'Star Wars'! "

"Is that person interesting ? Or that person? Do you want to know about that person? [when an interviewer wanted to know all about him] "

"After 45 minutes, it became 'The Shining'. [recording in a cabin in Lake Tahoe] "

"I don’t need a foot up my ass or a spike in my back, you know? I don’t wear any stupid Rob-Halford-from-Judas-Priest type leather wristbands. People think that we're into that kind of twisted shit, and really were not. "

"Isn't that kitty litter? [talking about a guy group called "Freshstep"] "

"I was sick of the whole big-tittied stripper vibe. I hate those big huge basketballs! I like a nice C-cup, right around that size. The double-Ds are a little too much! "

"What's important (to me) is that you give away all your emotion in the music."

"Whatever. A lot of whatever on that one. I'm sure everybody would like to say whatever on that. Let's just leave at that."

"I'll beat that whole band's ass single-handedly. "

"It's fantastic to be on a label run by musicians, not some guys in suits. "

"It has nothing to do with sex or any of that kind of stuff, {raises eyebrows} not that we don't enjoy that kind of stuff. "

"I had my phases... "

"I'm sure a lot of people would like to say a lot of whatever on that one... "

"I somehow finished high school, don't ask me how, I don’t know. "

"So what was the question again...oh yeah, bowling... "

"I figured my only two options were sports or music, and here I am now, a singer in a crazy band!"

"We gotta thank Ryan for making our hair look good. He's gay, you know, and so is Bobby."

"I'd love to be all mysterious about it, and that's why I said that I'm sure everyone would like to say whatever factor, but it's more calculated than that "

"oh god, i've totally depressed myself now. i think i need some

"i love it when i pull down a boy's pants & he's got no knickers on."

"one thing i'm brilliant at is sizing people up in 2 seconds and

knowing whether they're good, bad, or fucked up"

"i bake really good cakes & i give great head"

"Lets discuss SEX DRUGS & ROCKNROLL

for a minute. I'm getting no SEX.

The DRUGS don't work for me and

ROCKnROLL is painful & time consuming"

"It wouldn't mattera jot if Christina Aguileria claimed

she loved Garbage. I'd still think she was a horrid little squirt."

"Boys like to use the word pussy because it's a

soft, safe word. I like to use the word vagina.

VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA!"

"If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like

Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to

spend so many hours in the gym."

"have you ever masturbated over my picture?"

"you're in a fiesty mood today aren't you --- did yo u get laid last night?"

"as for anyone who harbours the desire to sleep with me ...

whether they are gay, straight, bisexual, whatever ...

let me set the record straight. if you actually MET me ...

you wouldn't want me in your bed. Believe me!"

"You know where I got the title for "Mayonaise"? I looked in my refrigerator."

"You cant be greater then Elvis, You cant fucking change things like the Beatles,

you cant be as original as Led Zepplin, all you can do is rip them off"

"I hate how in magazines, they always stick me somewhere in the back.

It means they don't think I'm the cute one."

"Alright end of the charade! Get the fuck out of here!"

"We live in a plastic world

and we are all plastic people

And they want to put you in a plastic box

And put you on a plastic shelf and say

GO AWAY, GO AWAY, ROCK IS DEAD!

But I am still here, so Fuck YOU!"

"You've lost all your hair, are you undergoing chemo therapy?"

"Do you understand the words fuck off?"

"If there is a heaven, I see me getting there and getting yelled at. I see,

like, the book, where they open it up and it's like: 'You've said this

naughty word 9 million times'. And you're like 'No!' and they're like 'Yes,

"The thing that makes it all worth it is when somebody comes up and says 'I

had a really hard time in my life and your album really helped me.' As long

as that happens, all the idiots in the world and all the stupid press can

say what they want to. It just doesn't matter."

"Courtney says I`m a great fuck? I am a great fuck.

You have to be a great fuck to be with Courtney Love."

"Its a Backstreet Boy world, and at the end of the day, you just want to go home and kill yourself"

"Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre"

"We`re fuckin` whipping post in the press - beat up on, made fun of."

Interviewer from the "Q" magazine:

"How do the Pumpkins feel about playing with the Cardigans?".

"Who are they? Are they huge? Have we missed the boat or something?"

"Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school"

"Surgeon General says crowd surfing is bad for your back."

"You know something is off when there's crowd surfing during '1979'"

"You make me feel dirty...yeah you"

"If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, then why practice?"

"Contrary to what you've heard, contrary to what you've read, the revolution is not over. It has just begun."

"For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I´ve done all right"

"...and a fuck you to all those who will never understand"

"'Disarm' is about my childhood and how I turned into an asshole."

"I'm glad that I'm such a good rhymer,

Better than being a social climber,

Just because I'm a bit brighter,

Than some fucking writer."

-Fax Billy Corgan sent to a reporter who said SP sucked.

"I'll die someday, and it won't be mythical or magical, I'll just bite into a Twinkie and fall over!"

"In 1991, we were competing with the real deal. Now we're competing with Nirvana mimics."

"Ten fucking years I've known this guy (James Iha), and I just want to drop kick his head."

"Look, I'm saying what I want to say, and if you don't fucking like it, too fucking bad."

"Every pillar that's set up is meant to be knocked over.

All you have to be afraid of is what people are gonna think."

"When I think of famous, I think of serial killers or politicians.

I think being in a band is just an excuse to not work."

"Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color you're not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow'."

"The whole point of the Smashing Pumpkins was to blow everybody away, so it didn't make sense to be funny at the same time. We were too busy trying to pummel your fucking head in."

"The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets."

"Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth."

"We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love, rock 'n' roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do to their bodies. We're just a rock band."

"I was a jock but I wasn't on the sports team. I played guitar, but I didn't hang with the stoners.

I just couldn't hang in any way, and when you're young and you can't hang, you oppose.

So I was anti-everything. Fuck you all."

"I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs,

because I think my perspective is definitely feminine."

"I think it's probably because we didn't do dumb things like,

'Wave your hands in the air' that we suffered a little, but I would rather suffer and not be a fool."