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Kerrang!
The schooling system we have in the Western world is crazy – you’re taken away from your parents at your most impressionable age and fed a load of bullshit and lies manipulated to make you think that the way we live in the West is stable and moral, when really it’s neither. You come out of school with a one-track mind based on financial success; you’re encouraged to become enslaved to the banking system. In school, I always felt, ‘Something’s not right here’ and I’m starting to find out what it is. Being outside of the norm gives you freedom of thought and that’s something being suppressed in school and the media. If you have freedom of thought you get labeled as a crazy person or someone strange.

Music is a matter of emotion.

Ноябрь 2003 г.

We take life seriously, but life's too short to take too seriously. That's where bouncy castles come in.

и объективной реальностью вне нас почти так же велика, как это показано в фильме «Матрица». После осознания этого факта вам может стать тошно от того, что на самом деле происходит.

Kerrang!

The differential between the bubble we live in — which is ‘ordinary life’ — and the reality out there is almost as heavy as what is being depicted in a film like ‘the Matrix’. It could make you puke to make that step towards finding out what’s really going on.

Kerrang!
I think people see me as slightly ‘out there’, but I think that’s a good place to be. In the world we live in I’d rather be out of the ordinary than ordinary because to be ordinary is to be part of a system that is very corrupt.

NME
We sometimes go to fancy dress shops and stock up on masks and lighting and novelty items… It makes it a bit more social when everyone's dressed up…

I think i'm crap. I'm a crap guitar player. I'm really not very good. And i thought I was a good singer until I met Coldplay. That guy's got a real voice. He can sing.

NME

To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.

NME
Often we'll verge on embarrassing territory, a certain over-the-topness. But maybe that's just trying to unveil something that's inside all of us.

Q Magazine
When you’re in a bar having a beer, before you know it you’re talking about conspiracy theories and alien abductions and all sorts of weird stuff and some people print that as if I’m making some kind of serious statement.

NME
What I know of this world is what my senses have told me.

We were all off our faces on mushrooms when we recorded Plug In Baby… There was this big field next to the recording studio filled with them. So we ate them all. I don't know what we were doing, but we all ended up naked in a jacuzzi and I went deaf in one ear from falling asleep in the sauna…

NME
(Madonna) will probably be on her knees giving me a blowjob with three of her mates one day but I'll have to sell ten million records first and have a body like Ricky Martin.

а это была первая песня на концерте. Если мы взбесили Пэрис Хилтон, значит мы делаем что-то стоящее.

Q Magazine

Paris Hilton [came] to the LA show, too. But she left during Knights of Cydonia, which is the first song on the set. If we're offending Paris Hilton we must be doing something right.

Вы не можете это сделать в обычной жизни, потому что вас скорее всего посадят, но в песне это как раз можно сказать. Это неискаженная версия того, какой я на самом деле. Для меня в этом есть что-то истинное.

Q Magazine

I think the way I am onstage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. If you’re doing well you’re tapping into things that you’re unable to express in normal life – deeper feelings, more intense emotions and things that are not acceptable in society, maybe. When you’re being frisked in an airport you want to say, “Fuck off, don’t touch me, you cunt.” You can’t do that in real life because you’d probably get locked away, but you can say that in a song. It’s an unedited version of who you are. For me there’s something pure about that.