QUOTES

Rip It Up, Issue 241, 1 September 1997, Page 5

QUOTES

I “It’s so insecure this job. It’s not the real world, you feel like it could all end tomorrow. I suppose if you get five middle-class white boys doing something as abstract and obtuse and potentially chaotic and crazy as this, then it’s understandably going to raise neuroses.” COLIN GREENWOOD of RADIOHEAD dissects rock ‘n’ roll. “Cat Stevens only agreed to do the interview as long as I didn’t show too much of my body. I was pretty tasteful.” DOLLY PARTON meets the writer of her hit ‘Peace Train’. “The first time we came here we thought, ‘America - great, skate culture and hip hop.’ Then you realise it’s the most horrible place on the planet.” The land of the free doesn’t impress PRODIGY’S KEITH FLINT. “[The Electrafixion] album is quite good - it’s better than Bush - but it didn’t pass the taxi driver test. When he asks you what group you’re in? And you say ‘Electrafixion’, and he says, ‘l’ve never heard of it’.” lAN McCULLOCH on why he got the band back together. “Our wives don’t consider us groping teenage boys as cheating on them.” The MELVINS’ MARK DEUTROM plays the field. “He gives me the creeps, he’s like a flasher, really bad vibes. There is no soul, no truth in anything he does as far as I’m concerned. People like that should be put down.” SHARLEENSPITERI of TEXAS reviews HANK ROLLINS. “I can get pregnant just looking at him.” . USA tabloid Star attributes this quote to MICHAEL JACKSON’S wife DEBBIE ROWE. “I’m trying to make an old Prince record, I think.” ITRENTREZNORonthe next NIN album. “It’s not enchanting to hear Clive [Davis] say, ‘Nice song, but I don’t hear it on Top 40’.” BURT BACHARACH has had “about 14” songs rejected by the Arista boss. “When I’m single, I’m a bit scattered - I’m always doing an interview with one I eye on the waitress.” Musician LEISHA HAILEY explains how she has creative focus, having settled down with girlfriend k.d. Lang. “The most important thing Dave Grohl did was grab a machete and whack his way out of the shadow of Nirvana. Now we’re following that path.” KRIST NOVOSELIC’s mission for SWEET 75. “I haven’t talked to what’s-her-name in years.” There’s no love lost between NOVOSELICand Courtney. “Get him an ON THE AIR sign for his bedroom.” A former wife of LARRY. KING when asked to . suggest a suitable birthday present. “I sleep four hours a night. When I get home, I’m so tired I just leave the television on. I like the sound.” A SEAN PUFFY sleeping tip for workaholics. “What happened was that people heard their music and liked it. I really can’t think of any more legitimate way for a band to become famous.” STEVE ALBINI on the success of BUSH. “Rock ‘n’ roll is just as totalitarian as anything else - as a sporting event, or Bill Clinton, or Stalin, or the Pope.” MARILYN MANSON on the politics of rock. J