"Music isn't about haircuts and catchy songs. It's about communicating with people and getting reactions." (Crispian)

"Music is a spiritual thing. You can't see it or touch it. It's a magical thing isn't it? It's a form of energy that should get people thinking in spiritual directions instead of 'If I can't spend it or fuck it, it doesn't exist.'" (Jay)

"Crispian has tapped into that element in youth that wants to inspired by something positive. I'm very proud of him." (Hayley Mills)

ON JAPAN

Crispian : Japan was vey succesful wasn't it.

Jay : It was fantastic !

Crispian : The fans get very into it.

Jay : Very devoted fans.

Crispian : They are, they actually get a bit stupid, you get a lot of presence. They know where you are, they know when you're going to get your train to get to your taxi. They seem to know more about you than you do......they know more about where you're going than you do!

Jay : If ever I'm confused I just ask a fan out there and they say 'you're supposed to be in the studio in 10 minutes' !

Paul : You've got to go for a walk where ever you are, just to realise that you're somewhere different, but in Japan girls will just follow you around!

Jay : Paul loved it !

Paul : It was like being the Pied Piper of ............

Jay : The Pied Piper of Hot Totty !

ON TATTVA HITTING NO. 4 ON THE CHARTS

Alonza : We weren't really aroung when it happened, so we didn't have time to go 'yeah, whopeee! Get the champagne out !'

Crispian : We were in Germany watching England lose......which nearly killed Paul. We had the duality of Paul's euphoria of having a hit record which had to be leveled off by his manic depression. So yeah, you have a hit record and then your drummer starts acting out rock and roll fantasies.

Paul : Listen, we're not taking the interview in this direction, thank you very much.

Alonza : No YOU'RE not...but we are ! Anyway you've shagged about 8 birds in the last week, I'd say, roughly.

Jay : That's the ones we know about !

Crispian : Yeah, and that's the ones he knows about ! We've only got three christian names so far.

Paul : Look, I'm catholic I'm confused about these things.

Alonza : 'Oh I'm so confused, I'm going to have to sleep with someone else', yes I think we've heard that one before....and we're not buying it.

Paul : I go to confession at St. Mary's.......

Alonza : You'll be there all day mate.

Jay : Want a sandwich ?

Interviewer to Paul: "' You seem to be the butt of band jokes. Does it bother you?"

Paul: "No, it's just the drummer thing. I've had it in every band."

"Oh really? That was nice of him. I like his album too."

Jay on being told that Noel Gallagher suggested their album as one of his top 10 favourites.

"We just don't want to be part of a society that bases their whole life on trying to get as much temporary happiness as possible. We're trying to get into something that is a little more real. It's just a way of rebelling, but the only thing shocking enough to rebel over anymroe is the truth." (Crispian)

"...and we got Paul off a pig farm. He was rectifying pigs' prolapses, you know when it's anus comes out. And what was he used to say..'look, no hands'. And then we realised that he was actually buggering the pig." (Alonza)

"You have to be ready for a revolution, but not an outwards revolution. You've got to hit yourself. Once you hit yourself you can do anything. Personal revolution is the invisible revolution and it's the most powerful one. It's true." (Crispian)

"It's like you have to be an infalliable genius to start taking yourself seriously. It's a strange country. I don't know if I quite understand it yet. It's certainly not the weather, coz they've got bloody horrible weather in North Germany and they're a bnoring bunch, not sarcastic at all. We don't know what it is. something about the cocktail - the Normans, the Romans, and the Celts, and you put them together. A sarcastic bunch." (Crispian)

"We have this master plan about growing beards for the third album." (Crispian)

"Lyrically the album consists mostly of 'smell the rose the sweet sweet rose' type naturesque meanderings, giving me the impression that they've taken a lot of acid, otherwise the Eastern philosophy they've embraced is powerful shit." (From a KS review)

KULA SHAKER ON THEIR ALBUM

Crispian: It's awesome. Absolutely brilliant.

Alonza: Amazing.

Crispian: Have you heard that Monty Python sketch about the funniest joke in the world and a few people who just read one word laugh so much that they go to hospital for a week and the people that read all of it just die on the spot. Well, it's kind of like that. People who have jsut heard a couple of notes or an introduction just freak out and ejaculate.

Alonza: The bad thing is though that these people then suffer really heavy depression because they listen to other music and it sounds just mundane. They have to go through counseling and everything, it's terrible. The A&R department at Sony are now just in counseling.

Paul: They've all started taking drugs!

(From an interview in Retroactive Baggage)

KULA SHAKER ON WHO DOES THE WASHING UP

Paul: I can't cook and I'm easily pressured into things so I used to do more than my fair share of the washing up.

Crispian: That's bollocks. You might not want to know about this, but he is so deluded. Your reality is just fucked man. I don't know who creates it, I don't know who shapes it, but if you honestly thought you did the washing up you are a fucking smelly, fucked up man. It's bollocks. I bet in your new place you don't do the washing up. I bet you've got paper plates.

Paul: Yeah well....

Crispian: Alonza never used to wash becasue he cooked, so in his head he would justify our fucking kitchen looking like a war zone. It was always "Yeah, but I did it." and I was like "Yeah, you did it. So clean the fucking place up."

(Retroactive Baggage)

KULA SHAKER ON THIER PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

Jay: Armeggadon is on the top of the list at the moment.

Paul: mmmmm. That would be nice.

Crispian: Avoid armeggadon or bring it on?

Jay: Survive it!!!