Top 25 Fred Schneider Quotes

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.

Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn’t like, ‘Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.’ We just didn’t have any money.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

I am a pacifist.

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

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

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

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

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

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

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.

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

I was raised in New Jersey – Long Branch.

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 like Scissor Sisters.

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.

I collect all kinds of things.

Everything changed after ‘Love Shack.’ We went ‘mainstream.’ ‘Love Shack’ set what people viewed us as, because a lot of people didn’t realize we had a career before that.

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

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.

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