"If they called me up, I would puke"

**5150EDU** · 12.29.00, 08:37 PM

Sammy said it:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/rolls/2..._quotes_1.html

Friday December 29 09:15 PM EST
What They Said: RS.com's Year in Quotes
During 2000, we talked with everyone from Snoop Dogg to Johnny Cash about everything from God and the Devil to smoking pot and prison. Here are some of the year's more memorable quips:

"While we are down with Jesus, the Devil just has better drugs." -- The Bloodhound Gang's Jimmy Pop

"I'm a believer in God and the Devil." -- Alice Cooper

"We haven't put out a record in three years, so I've got a lot of songs. I guess I'm prolific, but I always thought I was Greek-Irish." -- Everclear's Art Alexakis on releasing two albums in 2000

"The last few years were definitely not my favorite in my life." -- No Doubt's Gwen Stefani

"I've just been into biker movies ever since I can remember." -- Fu Manchu's Scott Hill

"If the first album I ever did, when I was twenty-one, was as successful as [the last] one, I think I would have been on crack by now. I'd be driving around in a big limousine, pissed off at all my friends, doing crack and wondering what happened to my career." -- Fatboy Slim

"I like to hear crazy rumors. Didn't I die in a car accident? My mom called me about that one -- she was really concerned. And then there was the time I raped someone. My mom also called me about that: 'I'm so disappointed in you!' But she doesn't call me about them anymore. I banned her from the Internet." -- Weezer's Rivers Cuomo

"The fact of the matter is, I'm fucking brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant." -- The Who's Pete Townshend

"I think he is a genius. Well, let's put it this way: he was a genius. I don't know whether he is now." -- The Who's Roger Daltrey on Pete Townshend

"I do all my interviews in the toilet." -- Slash

"We wanted to capture our first headlining tour on tape . . . [But] I don't think following us on the road would be that interesting, because we pretty much do the same thing every day. So that'd be a pretty short movie." -- Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines

"I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano." -- Elton John

"Hopefully people will realize now that I'm into a lot of different styles of music and not just techno and nosebleed music." -- Darren Emerson on leaving Underworld

"I'm searching for all forms of music out there. But I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas." -- Wyclef Jean

"People think that we're just these good-looking guys with these really big dicks that play really hot fucking rock & roll. But we're sensitive, and we have feelings too." -- Green Day's Tre Cool

"I never wanted to be the posterboy for witchcraft. You don't ask Cher if she's a practicing Christian, so get off it after a while." -- Godsmack's Sully Erna on Wicca

"No, I'm not on it at all. I'm dyslexic. I can't navigate shit there." -- Cher on the Internet

"Parents, when they raise their kids right, they know the difference between fantasy and reality. Maybe it's just because I'm in control of myself, but none of his lyrics make me go out and do anything." -- Missy Elliott on Eminem

"We're taking a little snooze. A siesta. I've been doing Primus since 1984, so I'm about due for a siesta." -- Les Claypool on the status of Primus

"With all the foul shit that we've ever done, this record hardly deserves it. And I'm not even angry because of the censorship. It's just ugly on the artwork." -- Ween's Dean Ween on getting a parental advisory sticker

"I don't trust people who don't use profanity." -- The Eels' E on his parental advisory sticker

"If they called me up, I would puke." -- Sammy Hagar on returning to Van Halen

"It's totally R.E.M.'s town. We used to see Michael Stipe, like, on a daily basis. You go into the coffee shop and he'd be standing right in front of you in line ordering his decaf latte with soy milk. So as soon as we could afford it, we got the hell out of there." -- Nashville Pussy's Ruyter Suys on Athens, Georgia

"I didn't go to the clubs, so my whole knowledge of this music is through the radio, and there is no real sort of reason to take an Ecstasy in front of the radio and go mental." -- Paul Van Dyk on enjoying electronica without Ecstasy

"It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player." -- Dickey Betts on his actions after being dismissed by the Allman Brothers

"There's so many on the television that I don't know who the fuck I'm watching." -- Ozzy Osbourne on boy bands

"You can never say that At the Drive-In is this left wing, pinko socialist band. We'd be total hypocrites by saying that because of what we do in every day life. We sell T-shirts. You pay to see us. There's really no political agenda that we can stand on." -- At the Drive-In's Cedric Bixler

"Ozzfest was nothing but mullets, Budweiser and free sunburns for everyone. I've never seen so many devil horns in my life." -- Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme

"As long as the band is still hungry and as long as the music is still with us, we will continue . . . I don't think we would keep going as a way of getting out of the house or earning a few quid." -- U2's The Edge

"This is supposed to be our year off, but it's been filled with so many obligations and events that have nothing to do with the rigors of touring and recording." -- Metallica's Kirk Hammett

"Sickness and doctors -- that scares me. Not violence, helplessness. I mean, I've had guns in my face. I've been robbed. But that doctor stuff -- it's too much for me." -- Warren Zevon

"We're gonna take a little time off, get reacquainted with our families and stuff and start writing the most dangerous album on the planet." -- Slipknot's No. 6

"I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about. " -- Johnny Cash

"I had no idea what he was planning. I didn't expect an evening of Tim vs. the NYPD." -- Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello on bassist Tim Commerford's MTV VMA stunt

"There's working girls, there's players, there's schemers, there's con artists . . . It's a pretty real account of that era." -- Al Green on his autobiography

"I hope people will finally realize that my life didn't change as much as it developed, and I always continued to be an artist." Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)

"I ain't got nothing to do with that shit . . . [The original] is like a jet plane, and this is like a little prop plane, know what I mean?" -- N.W.A.'s MC Ren on Dynamite Hack's cover of "Boyz-N-tha-Hood"

"Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease . . . If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world." -- Poison's C.C. DeVille

"I was raised in a very abstinent environment, so as an adult, I never really had the desire or a leaning in the direction of any sort of substance abuse. I've been in and out of every bar there is, every juke joint serving up everything from peppermint Schnapps to lighter fluid. And I just never had the desire." -- Dwight Yoakam on clean living

"I have a gift, and I abused that gift, and when I did, bad shit started happening to me. And when I stopped abusing that gift, the bad shit stopped happening and good shit started happening to me again." -- Steve Earle

"If you're gonna come to a party and bogart everybody's weed, you better have some of your own to share." -- Cypress Hill's B-Real on etiquette

"At one of the venues down south I walked by a sign that said, 'No Smoking, $300 fine.' . . . So I told the niggas in charge that if I couldn't smoke, I wasn't steppin' on stage. They didn't even try to contest that, 'cause that shit could've started a riot. They were immediately like, 'Smoke all you want, my nigga. It's all good.' In all reality, they should've known better than to try that shit. Nigga, this is Up in Smoke -- not no mothafuckin' after-school special." -- Snoop Dogg

"Everybody thought I was dead at that point. That revived my career so strong, you wouldn't believe it. Willie [Nelson] called me right away and said, 'Well, you just got $5 million worth of publicity.'" -- Ray Price on his 1999 marijuana possession arrest

"I'm the best when I'm do a song for the first time. And then I gotta record it because my memory ain't getting any younger. Smoking so much fucking marijuana over the years'll fuck your memory up." -- Robert Bradley

"Panic. Followed my more panic." -- Tom Waits on theater

"I think it's a Western notion of demonizing inactivity. No one can be productive all the time. If there's a period of weeks when your imagination decides it needs to take a nap then maybe that's what it needs to do." -- Elliott Smith on writer's block

"You can't stand alongside these punk rockers unless you've got some energy in your music. And I believe we've got energy. " -- Merle Haggard on his new label, Epitaph

"Ninety percent comes from living, traveling, my diary. And the rest will come forth in the studio." -- Alanis Morissette on her next album

"I went from being a Grammy-award winning artist to fifteen minutes later pushing a cart in Ralph's Market and buying some Pampers." -- Los Lobos' Louie Perez on keeping fame in perspective

"That's us -- the most hated band in the world. And I'll proclaim that over any of these lame-ass bands out there. We own that title. We make USA Today's worst album every year. They don't really know much about music, but it's still great. It's great to be named the best at something . . . even if it's sucking." -- Insane Clown Posse's Violent J

"I love New York, [but] I detest [Mayor] Giuliani." -- Lou Reed

"They're fucked, man. It's nothing but a bunch of old geezers . . . I'd much rather be in a bar." -- Hank Williams III on the Grand Ole Opry

"I'm very, very not warm. I'm terrible anyway, so that'll give me an excuse." -- Lance Bass on 'N Sync's charity basketball game

"I think we're all bisexual. I'm always having conversations with 'straight' men, and I say playing with a penis is still playing with a penis, even if it's your own." -- Boy George

"It's the spirit of music. It's the spirit of rock & roll. More people coming to the party. Not less." -- The Offspring's Dexter Holland on Napster

"If someone takes an unfinished demo from the studio and puts it up on the Internet, I'll kill them." -- Dido

"We wanted to make a pop/rock record. I'm not afraid to say that." -- Collective Soul's Ed Roland

"We represent the part of society that muthafuckas is tryin' hard to forget about. We've been that part of society all our lives. A feeling like that's too hard to just get rid of. It don't just go away. As far as we're concerned, it never will." -- Billy Danze of M.O.P.

"That story was just a joke . . . and the whole thing just got absolutely out of hand. But, if people want to believe I'm a dominatrix in my spare time, that's fine with me -- I mean, I'm definitely happy to smack people around if that's what they really want." -- Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's on her S&M reputation

"I didn't try to follow whatever trend is popular at the time; I didn't try to sound like whoever went platinum last week. I just made LL Cool J music, period." -- LL Cool J

"We wrote songs that were massively catchy. I challenge anybody to deny that." -- Duran Duran's Simon LeBon

"It'll be nice if we could sort it out like adults do." -- Oasis' Noel Gallagher on his feud with his brother Liam

"I'm grandiose. I've wanted to be a rock star since I was two." -- Courtney Love

"I spend more time thinking and writing, not promoting, which is probably why Bad Religion isn't as popular as the Offspring." -- Bad Religion's Greg Graffin

"When I was fifteen, I was thirty-five. When I was thirty-five, I was fifteen." -- Loretta Lynn

"I've got a whole batch of Go-Go's songs to offer. It'll be like Star Search. Or maybe we can Indian wrestle for it. I could take her." -- Tenacious D's Jack Black on fronting the Go-Go's

"When my agent told me he had a voice-over job I thought it was a Disney thing, and I was elated. But, when he told me it was somebody I'd never heard of, as wacky as they were, I was pissed." -- Isaac Hayes on getting the role of Chef in South Park

"With any band, with any person, if you really wanted to pry, you can always find dirt. People don't pry hard enough and you think, 'Well, geez, maybe we should get some kind of press officer to try and stir something up, make us look more exciting.'" -- Barenaked Ladies' Steven Page

"I like writing lyrics for women. You can do a lot. But that's all I was doing at first. I looked up and went, 'Damn, all I'm working with is girls!' It's not such a bad thing, but after a while, it's like, 'Can't you do something for the fellas?'" -- Jermaine Dupri

"It's hard for me to go back to them now, because I'm so busy trying to get someplace new -- I can't worry about whether or not I left the coffee maker on in my last record and I'm going to burn down the house or not." -- Ryan Adams on his Whiskytown albums

"That's the politics of bass -- it's sort of a mothering, nurturing instrument. You use it make other people look good." -- Mike Watt

"I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is." -- Patti Smith

Quotes compiled by Steve Florio and Lisa Supkow from original RollingStone.com articles.

(December 30, 2000)

**Romeo Delight** · 12.30.00, 10:23 PM

"There's so many on the television that I don't know who the fuck I'm watching." -- Ozzy Osbourne on boy bands

I Like this one too!

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RD

**I Coulda Hada VH** · 01.01.01, 12:06 PM

If Sammy became the next singer in VH instead of Dave, I would puke too.

[This message has been edited by I Coulda Hada VH (edited January 01, 2001 at 11:07 AM).]

[This message has been edited by I Coulda Hada VH (edited January 01, 2001 at 11:10 AM).]

**Down In Flames** · 01.01.01, 03:03 PM

Word, ICHAVH.

Hey Sam, don't wait by the phone, bro...

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