•"What's with that Bush video? Why is there a giant fly? That's one thing you'll never see in our videos. You might see me in a dress, but never will you see a fly."....James Iha - Jacksonville, FL concert
•"We have a cardboard cut-out of Billy that we kick occasionally."
•"I wish all these bands with the great indie attitude would just write songs. I don't get anything from them but attitude. Alternative music just bums me out in general"
•"Sue me. I'm sensitive."....James Iha - Rolling Stone February 1998
•"When the band is gone, when billy is gone, when the world has exploded, iha will still be rocking!"
•"one day i wish that all the people of the world, all the males, females, blacks, whites, purples, whatever, and all of the adults and children would all come together and get it on!!"
•"i call it the 'asian cat' meow!"
•"Ok you call here and do this to us again, we're gonna come over there and get those tapes.......don't ever call here again"....James on Q101
•"yeah, he'll take you to Churchill Downs and bet on whatever horse you want with YOUR money!"....James at the 10/29/96 Louisville Show
•"And so no one thinks of, like on this next video, we'll have a goat."....James from SP Videography
•"...I cried. Just for a second. Then I thought, 'I must rock'."....James from "KERRANG: THE LAST WORD"
•"And remember, instead of looking at those computer screens, I suggest some kind of sports or exercise..Experience life to the fullest, just like us (laughter)."
•"they gave up, and uh, its just commercials now for the entire second quarter."....James Iha
•"All right that's enough. I want everybody, from the front all the way to the back to get off their ass and dance. This is a rock and roll show, not a tea party! Yeah! this is Chicago blues!"
•"Some of the clothes I buy, I would never buy them if I wasn't in a band because they look so dumb"....James from the interview with Paul Berstein
•"Well, that was supposed to say, uh, 'Get your damn dirty ape paws off of me', but for whatever reason we didn't have any audio. It was very funny, if you had heard it."...talking about the screen behind the stage which was playing 'Planet of the Apes'.
•"i AM the alien."
•"We needed a lot more than that...we needed the Pope and his Poppettes."
•"The naked man is a genious...to show himself..a free man, free of clothes...We salute you naked man!"
•"Well, Thanksgiving was cool but- well, I think Today is the greatest day."
•"TORONTO! I can't hear you, Toronto...Lemme see some fuckin' evil hands! ALRIGHT!...just kidding..."
•"Normally, when TV sets jump out at you, they give you a little warning, but the one that attacked D'arcy yesterday was a spontaneous, sneaky one." - from Kerrang, May '96
•"I suppose listening to a double album is kind of like going to the chiropractor pretty good for you but you can't force it on anyone else."
•About a concert at MuchMusic that nearly got rained out: "We kept shuttling our equipment back and forth and we had whether reports and we called the president of the united states to find out what was going on with the rain, and then we made prayers to zeus."
