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Name: D'Arcy Wretzky Band: Smashing Pumpkins Position Bass Date Of Birth May 1st 1968 Place Of Birth ? Sex Female Official Site: SP Fan Site: SPFC Fan Site: Starla Fan Site: Day Dream Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"James isn't really James. He's a robot"


-"Look at the name of the band. How can people think we take everything so seriously when we're called the Smashing Pumpkins"


-"Rock is always about rebelling against the parents"


-"It's something that we've been talking about for a long time. It just seemed like something of a challenge and we wanted to bring everything that we've been trying to accomplish with the band musically to its fruition. Just put it all out and than sort of move on to a new sound the next time around. We felt we really couldn't do that with one album."


-"Look at the name of the band. How can people think we take everything so seriously when we're called the Smashing Pumpkins."


-"We don't have a set list that's the same every night, and we don't have choreographed moves like Guns N' Roses."


-"Rock is always about rebelling against the parents."


-"Rock is always about rebelling against the parents."


-"You want to know my take on the title of the album? Billy and Jimmy always have this bad pun game, is what I call it. It's the bad pun game getting out of control. Embarrassing. Not the name. The name's not really embarrassing. Just the game."


-"People bring us pumpkins They have pumpkin motifs in our dressing rooms. I mean, this one girl actually asked us if we changed our name for every holiday like we'd be the 'Smashing Turkeys', or the 'Smashing Santa Clauses', the 'Smashing Christopher Columbuses and she was serious! Can you believe that??"


-"Don't hate us because our hockey team beat yours."


-"I don't really like the effect MTV had on our audience."


-"I love them! We've been friends for years. They're doing a record with me and my brother-in-law's label. I'm going to play with them. I'm gonna be a Frog!"


-"We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down."


-"People got so upset that Nirvana got huge. I'd rather see Nirvana making shitloads of money than Michael Jackson, you know."


-Don't be so rough on the kids! We didn't pay you to behave like fucking Nazis!"


-"I'm a big Star Trek fan, but I'm not into the conventions or the ears or anything like that. I'm surprised they put The X-Files on the air, because the theories on there are so close."


-"Sometimes I feel like I'm speaking Martian to people."


-"That's our practice space and we recorded there. James did a couple of things at his studio. Billy did the demos at home. But actually there is a place called Pumpkinland. When we were on our very first tour, I think it's in California, there was this huge sign and it said Pumpkinland with big fluffy clouds on it. We took a picture in front of it. It's pretty funny."


-"I was known for throwing knives."


          -D'arcy Wretzky, Smashing Pumpkins, Bass Guitar, May 1st 1968