We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing.
DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'
People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.
I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
People. . . of the universe! Tonight. . . is the night. . when the skies will open, and spray forth a divine hand with pointed finger! And it will say. . . everybody. . . you're not just a duck. . . YOU ARE HUMAN! YOU ARE HUMAAAAN!!!
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it
Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.
Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.