Fred Schneider Quotes

There are a lot of people who are considered ‘camp’ who have no idea how ridiculous they are.

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.

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

Call us the future from your past.

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

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

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.

People think that I live in a space pod, but it’s pretty mid-century modern.

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

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

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

I am a pacifist.

I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along.

I like Scissor Sisters.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

I was raised in New Jersey – Long Branch.

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

I always wear Chuck Taylors, but then I found out that you could actually get your own shoes, so I mentioned it to the band, and they said, ‘Yeah! Let’s do it’ And we got ’em. That’s how it works.

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

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

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.

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

I like Loretta Lynn.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

I collect all kinds of things.

We’ve never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

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