Top 30 Fred Schneider Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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 am a pacifist.

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

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

I was raised in New Jersey – Long Branch.

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.

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.

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

I collect all kinds of things.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

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

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

Call us the future from your past.

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

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

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.

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

I like Loretta Lynn.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

I like Scissor Sisters.

Jim Hightower, Ann Richards – there are quite a few intelligent regular Texans.

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

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

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

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

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