Fred Schneider

“Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd take a bus or a cab and check them out.”

“I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.”

“I am a pacifist.”

“There are a lot of funny motels. There was one motel in the middle of nowhere: it was real plain, but it had a gigantic green monster, something like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, standing next to this lake.”

“We don't have a constant PR person or anything. That's why people say. 'Oh, you're still together?' Yeah. I'm in Des Moines with the band, not because I'm sightseeing.”

“Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.”

“People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.”

“No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.”

“Call us the future from your past.”

“I like Loretta Lynn.”

“Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.”

“We've always shared everything - writing credits, all the royalties - and there's no real leader because if there was one, we'd immediately depose them.”

“I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.”

“I'll tell you what: Everything about the Trump administration is scary.”

“We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.”

“I collect all kinds of things.”

“'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.”

“I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.”

“We weren't art students, but we definitely created our own style and were pretty influenced by Andy Warhol and all the stuff we read and saw and made fun of, you know.”

“I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along.”