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Q: "Do you think the Internet will become an important medium for bands, for example to show their abilities?"
D'arcy: "Their abilities for..."
Billy: "Typing. (laughter)"

Q: "What's this about James and D'arcy running a production company?"
James: "We don't have a production company. We have a record label."
D'arcy: "It's called Scratchie Records. Our motto is 'We won't fuck you over.' "

Q: "Hi James. My friend says that you were or are a woman. But then I also read that you were dating D'arcy. So which one was true?"
Billy: "He is a woman, and he was involved with D'arcy."
James: "I'm trying to do a lot of things these days."

MC: So what's the name of the new album?
Billy: It's called Siamese Dream.
MC: Siamese Dream.
James: The Search for the Yetti.

Discussion about the TV that injured D'Arcy

"Normally, when TV sets jumps out at you, they give you a little warning,"says James. "But the one that attacked D'arcy yesterday was a spontaneous, sneaky one."

"Look at my hand," D'arcy pouts, delicately massaging a bruise. "And I couldn't even walk when I woke up because my leg is so fucked up."

"You know I'm in the room below you," Billy asks her.

"Did you hear the crash?"

"Of course I heard it - it was like a fucking megaton bomb went off!" Billy grins and the others all crack up.

"It was like an OJ Simpson thing. I thought maybe I should make a note when I heard it, in case somebody had been murdered."

"It was almost me," D'arcy cries."I could sue for this."

"So where were you last night?" says D'arcy pointing an accusing finger at Jimmy.

"In my room."

"I don't believe you," she snaps. "You were at that gay club."

"I couldn't find it," Jimmy insists. "But you guys went there, right?"

"Looking for you," D'arcy counters. "But it was too crowded. We couldn't tell if you were there or not."

"I slicked my hair back and put on a fake pencil moustache," Jimmy cackles.

"And a thong," adds D'arcy. "Then we went to this other club and this lesbian who didn't speak very good English told us, 'No bondage clubs on Wednesdays - you have to make sex with yourself.' And then she tried to hit on me. They let us in this club because they thought we were drag queens or something."

"That's always a compliment for a woman," says Billy dryly. "You know, 'Great outfit, dude'."

"I was wearing the Madonna hair," D'arcy says, trying to explain, then giving up. "Anyway, it was pretty intense. Men in thongs dancing."

"Like that place in New York?" Jimmy asks, wide-eyed. "Oh , my God. that's about the closest a penis has ever been to my head! This guy just has a jockstrap on and I'm trying to order a drink, and he shuffles down the bar and I look up and I'm like, 'Hell-o!'. Another guy had a fake snake sticking out of his G-string."

James: "Did you go to that transvestite bar in New Orleans?"

Jimmy: "I was working that night."

James: "Good evening Oakland!"
Billy: "James, we're not in Oakland."
James: "Good evening San Francisco!"
Billy: "We're not in San Fransisco either. (to the crowd) See, there is something many of you may not know about James. He's a robot, and when we're on tour, we kinda forgot to reprogram him sometimes so he gets confused easy. That's also why he smells so bad since we can't give him a shower."

James: "The older I get, the more I appreciate Mick Taylor.
Billy: Yeah, when you're younger you can never appreciate how good a guitar player Mick Taylor was. But when you grow older, you start to appreciate a contribution to a song. You move away from just a solo thing."
Guitar World: "Although live with the Stones, Mick Taylor was always soloing all over the place."
Billy: "Was he?"
James: "Oh yeah, all over the place. On record, it was different."
Billy: "See, I didn't know that. Fuck him, then."

Interviewer: "Billy, what's your biggest hope for the album [Mellon Collie]?"
D'arcy: "The biggest hoke?"
Billy: "No, no, this is serious."
D'arcy: "Oh, sorry. "
Billy: "That, uh, the album will create a resolving harmonic in each person and... world peace will be consummated and from that will be born babies.. .who will buy our records."
Interviewer: "And what if that doesn't happen?"
Billy: "Then we'll just have to come find you and kill you!!"
D'arcy: "I'll just be happy as long as people don't use the CD's as frisbees."

Interview for the Promotion of latest album, Machina/The Machine of God

Q) Why did you choose the title - Machina/the Machines of God?

Billy: I don't like to talk about album titles. I always feel weird talking about album titles

James: At first it was gonna be 'Knee Deep in the Hoopla,' but he came up with that title.

Q) What about 'Heavy Metal Machine then'? Is it a homage or are you making fun of the whole genre?

Billy: I am blessing, cursing, making fun of, destroying and uplifting simultaneously.

Q) Like destroy what you love?

Billy: Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me, 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.'

Question to Melissa) I was expecting you to go into photography...

Melissa: Just because I do one thing it doesn't mean I am stopping any other thing. I do many things simultaneously.

Billy: You know we own all your photos?

Melissa: Yeah right. Good point. Yeah I am still doing that and I am still making up songs in my head and on my answering machine and playing wonderful bass in this band.

Billy: She makes these really creepy dolls.

James: There's all these pins in mine.

Billy: Some sort of Canadian hoodoo, up north there.

Q) Were you deliberately looking for a female replacement for D'Arcy?

James *grins* No, we met these two fat guys..but

Billy: it didn't work out. Actually we knew these two twin brothers who rock 350 each.

Q) What would that be in kilograms?

James: It would be a lot.

Billy: They're about 800 kilos each and they both played bass, so the whole attraction was like they would each stand at both sides of the stage and it would be like a duo of twins at the bass and the one
brother takes the two octaves down.

James: But they kept punching me in the shoulder and it hurt.

Billy: They keep saying 'hey buddy'

James: It was like I'd be out for like an hour and after a while Billy was like, 'Hey, the guy's gotta play guitar, the guys gotta lighten up on 'em.'

Billy: So pretty much the reason she's in is 'cause she is the only member who can't kick his ass.

James: Yeah and I like it.

Q) Jimmy, three years in exile....

Jimmy: Was it that long? How long did I sleep?

James: He's just been tired and we gave the guy the break that he deserved.

Jimmy: What time is it? Where am I?

James: Who are you?

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