Stars on the music of Celine Dion: “It sounds like if Hell had diarrhea, if the Devil had diarrhea. But she’s an awesome chick.”
Mogwai on phobias: “I’ve got lots of irrational phobias. Like I have to sit with my back to the wall pretty much. Especially in restaurants. I always get really annoyed if the table is in the middle. I don’t know, maybe I’ve got like a fear of an assassin coming in and strangling me or something. I also don’t like sponges.”
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin on real alternative music: “My guilty pleasure is CCM: Contemporary Christian Music. There are about 20 songs that are way better than the Strokes…No Age, they would blow that out of the water.”
Port O’Brien on sustainable food: “The bumper sticker – and it’s inside the album too – it says ‘Friends don’t let friends eat farmed salmon.’ The farmed salmon industry has really over the last couple decades hurt the salmon fishing industry in Alaska and hundreds of families including my own.”
Earlimart on gay marriage: “You don’t have to be a resident to get your marriage certificate, so everybody’s going to California to get married. And obviously all the folks that are gay are getting the best places. So you can’t find a cool place to get married because they all got them all, and there’s nowhere to get married now and you gotta get in line. It’s like the fucking iPhone or something. To get married.”
Bodies of Water on the economics of touring: “Pretty much everything that you make goes into gas. In the spring we made like a big loop around the country…we totalled up all our gas receipts and it was like $3700.”
Forest Fire on indie bands: “I feel like none of them are trying to make classic, big, best-album-of-the-decade kind of albums. And I think that’s because they are all very shy and try to be unassuming and humble…and I think that eventually makes me not pay any attention.”
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