“There are moments when I’ll put on the head mike and things will feel theatrical and I think I’m David Bowie, but generally it’s as colorful as the record. If you see us live, you’ll get it.”
“if you get us in a room, unless we are talking about ourselves or music, we’re pretty boring people.”- Today Show
“Actually, we heard this if you’re out there silverchair. We heard that at your gig in Brisbane that people were giving you a hard time, throwing stuff at you and you actually threatened to play Savage Garden music if they didn’t stop. Which I thought was really cool, and you’ve got balls for saying that.”- MTV
“I never once said that I wasn’t married. I just didn’t talk about it, and generally. I would never discuss the nuts and bolts of it. It’s the only private thing I have in my life, and I cherish that.”- TV Week
“ ‘I can’t understand a word you’re saying but when you sing I get tingles all over my body.’ “ -Darren on the worst pick-up line a girl ever used.
“In America it’s so competitive and you don't get a hit single just because someone thinks it’s interesting that you came from Australia.”- Channel V
“Ohhh! Hours and hours.” Darren on how long he spends in front of the mirror each morning.
“I miss my wife...I miss my dog.. I miss the 7-eleven, hey man you gotta miss the 7-eleven!!!” -what Darren misses about Brisbane
“We have no embarressment in saying that we love theatrics, we love whiz bang, woo hoo. We’re in the process of designing a set now for a world tour I’d guess you’d call it. We’re starting off in Australia and we’re taking it all around the world. It’s exciting you know, most of the money we’ve earned we’re actually spending on this set and lights and streamers and party balloons.”- Channel V
“You know.....I wanted to look like a man.” -why Darren cut his lovely hair.
“U2 have an enormous lemon that comes on the stage and we have a baked bean. It’s basically an enormous baked bean that opens up and we’re dressed in Vegemite suits.”- Channel V
“Argo, you taught us it was ok to be hairy!”- Darren talking to Brisbane radio OZ’s puppet and icon ‘Argo’
“That was thingy and what’s it ...Sausage Garden.” -Darren mock-announcing his own song on the radio.
“I got a bunch of flowers from a friend of mine today and the message on the card said ‘EAT ME ELTON’ “- US press conference for TMD. ~lol~
“For me, I’m not in a band or on television to pick up chicks. I think there are easier and cheaper ways to do it. You just write a want ad.”
“I find Scully extremly sexy but I’d have to hang out with the Friends gang because I’d be closer to Courtney Cox, who’s a babe. I like the episode when she’s this fitness freak going ‘We’re fit, we’re fit!’ ”
“We try to be in...try to be hip...but we can’t!!”
“We’ve been looking and trying...but as you all know I’m married”- Darren’s answer when asked if they have been trying to pick up any French girls
“To be honest, I’d rather just do what’s in my heart. Just because we’re commerical doesn’t mean our hearts are marketing strageties..Besides the lyric content is fantastic and a lot of the arrangements are great.”- TV Hits
“I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO and it’s very hard to put the cups away when this joint doesn’t bend.”-60 minutes
“I’ve never been the sort of person who could walk into a room and have 50 women want to sleep with me, okay, and suddenly you walk across a stage and you have a video clip and you know girls want to go out with you and think you’re beautiful”-60 minutes
“When I was 10 I used to go around shopping centers and go ‘Oh they’ve reconized me’ and I used to think ‘Hang on, I’m nobody famous yet.’ “-60 minutes
“I’ve never been the sort of person who smiles in photos. I didn’t even smile in my wedding photos. You just have to pinch me on the butt or something.”-60 minutes
“I’d run around the backyard in red socks- that would be the play. I’d be devastated when nobdy turned up”- Herald Sun
“This was a real Franklins, pack-it-yourself kind of album.” -Music Press
“To me, show business is great as an illusion. You know, all that stuff like limos and designer clothes and Evian water and glamour are greaat when the cameras are clicking, but real life is not like that. Real life is Labradors and tap water and, you know, undies on the line.”- Music Press
“We’ve done a few shows and we’ve fallen off the stage but we’re not going to do that tonight.”- Melbourne concert
“It doesn’t matter if I wear platform shoes or we get bad reveiws cause it’s not about that. It’s about family, it’s about my puppy dog, it’s about the people we love. These songs are about those things.”-Melbourne concert
“I tell ya he’s shocking”-Darren talking about his dog Obi.
“We’re pretty much looking for part time jobs at Kmart.”- the FOX
“Jim was in the trailer next to us, and we were like going, "Cable guy!!" *knock knock*
And I don't think he liked us...”- about meeting Jim Carrey (Martin and Molly)
“I never stole from my parents”- Tracey and Mat in the morning
“I had one friend comment that I had the world's worst hairstyle on one program. That's about it, generally they keep their comments to themselves.”-Martin and Molly
“I used to fall in love with my dreams, still do every now and then, and the person’s so real that I smell theire perfume. Whe I wake up, for about 10 mins it feels so real, that when I realixe it was all a dream, I’ll go through a mourning process. That’s why “I Want You” starts off ‘Anytime I see your face I just close my eyes...’ It’s that dream-like ranting”
“Pop music means it’s popular because the general population enjoys it.”
“We're laughing because we were in Germany and everything was like you know, would you like a meat thick shake? And everything was like, meat, would you like meat with your meat? Even in the salad they were hiding the meat under the salad, and I'm like, "Vegetarian!", they're like, "Oh, we have sauerkraut for you”-Martin and Molly
“You can say we’re naive but it is part of our charm.”
“Underneath the sugar pop, underneath the, ah, the candy frosting I think there is some really deep stuff happening lyrically and musically.”
“If people think we’re pleasing to the eye, that’s good.” -TV Week
“All of that vampire stuff is me, not Daniel, and I feel
bad because he gets tarred with the same brush. But yeah, I wear black and
I am pale. The thing is, I'm a vegetarian, so I'd be a terrible vampire!
“
“We played to about 3 thousand people, thought we were pretty good. And then another 10 thousand people came to see INXS. And we watched the set. And we were amazed by this band who could pull out every single song as a hit. And those hits came from 10 albums or 11 albums. And to us, I guess, success is about consistency. It’s about being able to come out a better record and a better record.”- Darren on opening for INXS
Darren about Daniel
“I actually remember thinking that my world was never going to be the same.”- about meeting Daniel
“We’ve only had 3 arguements.”
“There’s going to be a big black dot here (pointing to daniel’s face), they black him out in the next video. It’s just all about me.”-Singapore interveiw
“He’s not allowed in some hotels. I’m spewing about that. Yeah fair dinkum, strewth, almost sacked it.”-Tracey and Matt in the morning.
“How was that experience for you Dan, pretty good?”
Darren on the Spice Girls
“I’d put them in the same trash compactor as Whigfield.”
“You know if we were Spice Boys, I’d be Hairy Spice.”
“This award goes out to Ginger Spice cos I reckon she’s alright!”- jokingly dedicating their “Best International Debut Single” Award in India.
Darren about Boy Bands, etc
“I don't buy 4 or 5 guys who can’t really sing and didn’t write the songs. It pisses me off”-refering to Backstreet Boys or N’Sync
“That’s lovely...but I hope they identify with our music”-when asked about being a teenage girl’s pin-up
“Really the only thing we have in common with that kind of music is that we’re male, I think. You know we can’t dance worth shit.”