Quotes from Fred Schneider

I am a pacifist.

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

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.

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

I am so not hooked into watching TV or listening to the radio, to be honest. Usually, when I do, I get angry.

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.

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

I collect all kinds of things.

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

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.

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.

I was the meal delivery coordinator for Clarke County for Meals on Wheels.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.

A good fruit cake is good fruit cake. A bad one is really bad.

I was interested in wildlife conservation, and I chose Georgia because they supposedly had a good forestry school. I figured it might be easier to get good grades there, too, because a lot of Southern kids would come up to school in New Jersey, and they'd always be a little behind, so I figured maybe I wouldn't have to work so hard.

Jim Hightower, Ann Richards - there are quite a few intelligent regular Texans.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

I like Scissor Sisters.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.