Brian Molko Quotes
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Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
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I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.
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Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.
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I used to feel more straight for certain months and then just think about boys all the time I'm attracted to women who are very, very boyish. I'm not very big on big mammaries. I have a tendency to be attracted to very, very boyish girls. And usually very feminine men.
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Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.
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When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.
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Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.
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I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.
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Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.
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The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.
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If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
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The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
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I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.
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As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.
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We live in a strange bubble.
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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
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I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
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Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.
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I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.
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Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo
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A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
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I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.
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I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.
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I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.
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I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
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When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.
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My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
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It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
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I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.
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There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.
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