“Kurt Cobain and grunge took the fun out of rock and roll.”—Brandon Flowers isn’t going to be overdosing anytime soon [NME]
“[They’re] just like us. They … get drunk, talk shit, go to jail. But they just wear the little hats.” —Snoop Dogg on country music stars [E! Online via Spinner]
“The first time I had to perform ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ after watching the YouTube video, I was thinking, ‘Are people comparing me now to Susan Boyle? Are they thinking I do it better, or Susan does better?’ But then I was like, ‘Wait a minute. What am I thinking?’ “—Les Miserables’ Valerie Rachelle on having new competition [E! Online]
“I hired an acting coach just for the day because a lot of the lines later on in the episode are very complicated. I’m talking a lot about history and theorems and conductors, and there’s a lot of facts and a lot of big words, and I had to say it as if it was coming to me very easily, so I had to learn the lines ahead of time rather than just reading them. I actually had to research some of them because the acting coach told me that if I really understood what I was talking about, it would come through a little more true.”—Lauren Conrad on preparing for her guest spot on The Family Guy [E! Online]
“It’s not easy for me to say, ‘I don’t think you should go to school like that.’”—Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore on disciplining his 13-year-old daughter [Spin]
“I’m a huge supporter of the gay community. [I’m] possibly a member myself, you never know.”—Aubrey O’Day is possibly gay? [Spinner]