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"It's not like we go around consciously with the challenge in our heads to rid the world of track-suited bands. We don't even think about it. We just get on with it." Steve
"We're the faggots your girlfriends fancy, and that's why we're so dangerous." Brian "You miserable cunts. You're in a successful band, selling loads of records and look at you. Look at the fucking state of you." Steve, on meeting Brian and Stefan again at the Phoenix Festival "Music that really works or art that really works... inspires extreme reactions in the soul of the viewer or listener. It's either love or hate and indifference is the killer." Brian "We are writing fiery, emotionally-charged music at the moment and maybe it will be rawer in a lot more places than the second album. It's feeling very powerful and we definitely haven't run out of ideas." Brian "It looks to me that someone actually started blowing air up her arse into her body." Brian on Deborah Harry. "Placebo are showmen! Like Abba!" Stefan "It's hard to get the right shade [of nail polish] if you're a six-foot Swedish bloke." Stefan "[Abba] were the best. I don't think we could ever cover them though - their songs are untouchable." Stefan (I can't help wondering what he thought of that thing at the Brit Awards.) "The reason Brian's been getting all the press is that, first of all, he's got a bigger mouth than me for example. He likes to be heard, wherever he is, while I don't feel I need to to that extent." Stefan "I've been in a lot of bands in the past ten years, and Placebo definitely have a weird vibe going on." Steve "My father wanted me to grow up and become a businessman like him; my mother wanted me to grow up and go to heaven like her." Brian "I think not being trendy should be the next trend." Brian "Why should we only use part of out potential? It would be stupid." Steve "Thanks. I just hope I didn't mature. Oh well, actually I think I did." Brian, on being told 'Without You I'm Nothing' was a more grown-up album. "It's pathetic, all the rumours you hear about that kind of lifestyle, the famous rock'n'roll lifestyle, they're actually true. It's weird. I remember that I was a loser, unemployed and simply a loser. Then we started the band, played gigs, a nd all of a sudden I was shaggable. I mean I could get it however I wanted." Brian "I simply find it strange that people want to model themselves on somebody who doesn't feel very secure in themselves anyway." Brian "It kind of pissed us off when we were framed as this post-Glam Gothcore band, because we're far more interested in disco." Brian |