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Quotations may or may not be completely accurate.

"Now that people are beginning to recognize us away from the stage, it's becoming very interesting. If Americans see us walking around someplace, they come right over and start talking. It's great!"

"I think it's down to a big pile of luck, mate, if you want the honest truth. Don't get me wrong, I think what we do is worth the attention, but as to why us and not them? Luck - pure and simple."

"On tour, you find out whether you're really a team or just four individuals pursuing their own ends. There are bands in America that've had f*ckin' massive hits, then they get halfway around the country and split up because they hate the f*ck out of each other!"

"You start rattling around your four walls. You get on the phone a lot. It's going from one extreme from the other. You're in the middle of this circus, and then all of a sudden you're plonked back in your own front room in front of your TV, and come eight o'clock, the old adrenalin glands are going and you're thinking, where's the gig?"

"We got on the bus, straight from the airport, and haven't gotten off" -In response to the massive amount of touring Bush does.

"There's no point in being a clever bastard."

"I've enjoyed wiping my own arse for 30 years. Well, I haven't enjoyed it, but I'm quite happy to do it and I certainly don't want anyone else doing it." -On not wanting to slip into self-obsession caused by fame.

"There's money to be made and world domination to be had."

"People think that the name Bush has everything to do with sex; it only has something to do with sex. It's just a nice, small word that everyone can spell."

"We're like pac-man, we just go around consuming America!"

"Everyone thought we were loaded when infact we didn't have a pot to piss in."

"I think I scared Nigel."

"Whether you like us or not, we're not going away...we're going to be stuck down your throat. Most people like us. I mean, well, everyone who comes to our shows likes us, anyway."

"I warned you we'd be back, and we're here...and we're going nowhere."

"There is no substitute for playing live, for people seeing who you are and I believe...you know, there's a certain amount of, er, theatre, that goes with playing live that can only, people can only relate to, when they see you, you know. It adds so much more to the picture, the mental picture that they've got, or the visual picture that they have from videos and the picture they've painted themselves when they listen to your album is, you know, the final real installment is to see you and it all be as real as they'd hoped or better."

"I'm a musician! I'm a musician!"

"Custom built turds on wheels." -Pertaining to tour busses

"240 shows doing the same arrangements would be a nightmare. It would be a Michael Jackson tour."

Promoter- "Do you know where Gwen is?"

Robin- "With Gavin."

Promoter- "Where's Gavin?"

Robin- "With Gwen. We could have this conversation for a while."

"Back home it was more of a ‘Oh, we guess you're okay after-all' attitude. It was like they were doing us a favor to even acknowledge that we had make a good album. I think some of it had to do with the idea that America had embraced us, and the folks at home didn't want to seem as if they were jumping on our bandwagon after the fact. It's a very British sort of attitude."

"It copped up a couple of times but, you know, Gavin is, one of Gavin's great quotes, you know, which I respect him for, which I say that was that people would say, 'You know, do you think your looks have anything to do with your success?' he said, 'I've looked the same for 10 years and I have been in 3 unsuccessful bands for eight of them, so you know, it hasn't been that much of an advantage. It's obviously an advantage if you write good songs and have a good band but there are millions of good looking guys, you know, who want to be in bands, who just don't get it.' I've never considered myself good-looking at all, I've just considered myself to be pretty good on what I do with the drums, you know."

"To be in a band in England and to be successful is really easy. In America, it's a totally different thing. If you want to be famous and big in America, you have to go out and do shows."

"Musically, it doesn't make a difference how many people you're playing for because you do the same at the show anyway. It's more the sensation after you come offstage, it's quite confusing to realize you've just played to that amount of people simultaneously. When you first start out, you play to 100 people."

"I enjoyed Swim actually, always have. I loved it in the studio when we recorded it. Just kind of made my hair stand on end when I was playing it. It was a one take, it was start to finish, we went straight through, It was like one of those no fear ones, without any fear of the fact you're recording -- and when you come out the other end, its exactly how you imagined it would be. That's the hardest process of recording, I find is, how you imagine you sound, as opposed to how you sound when you come back."

"I got drunk Saturday night, and I nearly didn't go. But [Gavin] phoned me again earlier that day to say, 'Please come tomorrow', and that second phone call made it. I thought they were great. I didn't really like the drummer, which made me feel good. I knew I could have just sat down there and taken them up two levels in the rhythm department immediately. Got a bit drunk and told them that." -On how he joined Bush

"I was in a band with her brother and I didn't fancy him as much as I did her." -On how he met Glynis

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