“It just seems like there are too many mopey, whiny indie bands out there now.†— Unfortunately, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner is refusing to name names [Guardian UK]
“Drunk in the bottom of the garden, singing for hours and hours and hours ‘til everybody left and I was still there singing.†—PJ Harvey on the time she first met John Parish [Guardian UK]
“I’m interested in people like that because they are exactly like novelists, who are all egomaniacs. I write about them as cautionary tales for myself.†—T.C. Boyle on why he writes about people like Frank Lloyd Wright, Alfred Kinsey, and John Harvey Kellogg [Times UK]
“I was into 90210 and maybe some Melrose Place, but I was always more of a Saved by the Bell kind of guy.†—Pete Wentz on his formative TV-watching diet [MTV]
“I do read scripts and just go ‘Ohhhh. I’m bored’ so I won’t pursue it.†—Guy Pearce on knowing when not to get involved [Contact Music]
“If you turn on American TV, there’s a huge choice of nothing you want to see and, unfortunately, I think that’s the case here now as well.†—The Wire’s Dominic West on terrible television the world over [Contact Music]