"I actually wanted to be a lumberjack." - the edge 91, on if he wanted to play drums since he was a little boy
"We've always been about originality. We don't want to be a parody of ourselves. I'm thirty-one now, and I don't see myself playing 'Jellybelly' at forty."
"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."
In answer to the question,"how did you get that tatoo?", "At a carnival once, i knocked down some milkbottles at a stall."....Australian's triple j interveiw, '96
"The only thing I can say in Dutch is: 'take off your pants.'"
"I like the duck!..."
"the reason I wear the hat, is because I'm actually bald." -the edge 91, pre-interveiw
"you can beat an egg, but you can't beat a wank " -from KERRANG! challenge
"We like any kind of flirting with death."
"We're 4 different people and we wanna sound like 4 different people."
On playing heavy metal: "It's fun, i mean it's very visceral, it's very physical, it's very emotional, it's...it's jazz for people who aren't that good. [laughs]..."
"The best way to convey emotion that's really deep is to be really honest with yourself."