"This is rather embarrassing, because I don't consider myself hot.

-- JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, accepting the Teen Choice Hottie Award

"There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door,

going sixty-five miles an hour." --
IZZY STRADLIN

"We can make two more records and then

we'll be done. By that time we'll all be
about thirty. If we keep going, we'll end up
wanting to free Tibet or something." --
BLOODHOUND GANG's JIMMY POP

"The scary thing is that this band was founded in 1988,

and back then it was Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns and
, like, 'What chick am I gonna be with tonight?' --
it was that mentality, you know, around a keg." --
MARK McGRATH on SUGAR RAY

"I think of it as a greatest hits album,

without the hits. Not yet, anyway." --
BOB DYLAN on his upcoming "Love and Theft."

"I don't need drugs to make weird music." --

KOOL KEITH

"He's got fifty-five pairs of shoes and 1,000 pairs of sunglasses.

It's like going shopping at Versace." --
BILLY JOEL on ELTON JOHN's dressing room

"It was strange seeing the distorted Eighties faces." --

BILLY IDOL on celebrating MTV's twentieth birthday

"I would love for the time to come where somebody

can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and
Christina in the same sentence. We're really, really different." --
JESSICA SIMPSON

"I'm a horrible basketball player. But Jim Beam

said 'We'll give you free booze.'" --
PAPA ROACH's COBY DICK on playing celebrity basketball

"I read the newspaper today for the first time in three years." --
JOEY McINTYRE on preparing for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
"These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs,
and they'll be doing the same in thirty years.
There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb." --
MOBY

"I think of it as a greatest hits album,

without the hits. Not yet, anyway." --
BOB DYLAN on his upcoming album

"I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time.
I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art.
I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face." --
CRAIG DAVID

"My house has an indoor pool with a retractable

ceiling and a dragon at the bottom -- you know, typical shit." --
SISQO

"I've been f*cked up for thirty years,

so let me just make the goddamn records
the way I want to make them." --
IGGY POP

"People want us to live together again.

They want to see the Fabs. We have our own lives,
and if it's nice and calm we meet up, say hi,
hello and move on till the next time." --
RINGO STARR

"I like O-Town. I think we go good with O-Town.

We could do a tour." --
WEEZER's MIKEY WELSH

"I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough
money.
But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm
in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that."
-- SCOTT WEILAND

"Now that Rocco's arrived, I'm less careful.

Before, I was more worried about leaving Lola with somebody.
Now I'm more cavalier about handing my son to the gardener."
-- MADONNA on having a second child.

"Iggy Pop gets a little too mysterious for me.

I doubt I would even want to walk up to him and tell him
 that I liked him because he might punch me or something - -
DRYDEN MITCHELL of Alien Ant Farm

"I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer.

People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown." --
SPARKLEHORSE's MARK LINKOUS

"It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not
looking like everybody on TV.
You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk." --
DESTINY CHILD'S BEYONCE KNOWLES on the meaning of "Bootylicious"

"We're not a boy band. We're a man band." --

JON BON JOVI

"Some of these artists might as well be working at Wal-Mart:

'Hi, I'm a musician. How can I help you?'" --
LUCINDA WILLIAMS

"I don't think there's an end to this group until one of us dies." --
BACKSTREET BOYS' NICK CARTER

"Of course you don't want your kids swearing.

But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?" --
EMINEM on being a responsible parent

"Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny." --
BLINK-182's MARK HOPPUS

"I'm not a terrible smoker, actually.

My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys." --
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

"We're playing six nights a week. Which is great.

If I don't go out and destroy stuff soon,
I'm going to go mental." --
SLIPKNOT's NUMBER SIX (THE CLOWN) on the group's upcoming tour

"Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people.
I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth." --
NICK CAVE

"Before, we put on whatever we thought was funny,

whether it be making fun of ourselves or others.
As time goes on, our songs seem to be less and
less about that and more about sex." --
BLOODHOUND GANG's JIMMY POP

"I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be.
Now that we've had a little success, I can afford to drink wine." --
BLINK-182's TOM DELONGE

"I don't love the years going by.

I'd just as soon stay forty-five.
But it's OK because I feel a whole
lot better than I did at thirty-five." --
STEVIE NICKS

"It's still a way to meet girls.

I don't think there's any greater reason to
create something than to do it out of romantic impulse." --
BILLY JOEL on playing the piano

"When I go to karaoke,
I'm still the worst guy there." --
SUGAR RAY's MARK McGRATH

"I don't get big-headed. This is who I am.

I'm about smokin' weed, talkin' s**t -
and reppin' the bricks." --
REDMAN

"Hopefully, people will look back and say,

'OK, the thong guy really does know music.'" --
SISQO

"Everyone used 'Millennium' . . . and

'Chocolate Starfish' is taken. There's nothing left." --
the BLOODHOUND GANG's JIMMY POP on finding an album title

"It's not true what they say about oysters.

I had a dozen last night and only six worked." --
TOM JONES on aphrodisiacs

"We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs . . .

some of us like to go sightseeing." --
MIKE SHINODA of LINKIN PARK

"It was filled to the gills, and people were

moving back and forth like corn in the breeze."--
Sen. Jesse Helms after attending a U2 concert
 "I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween,
and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black." --
STEVIE NICKS

"It could've been worse.

They could've compared me to Fred Durst." --
American Hi-Fi's Stacy Jones
on being compared to Dave Grohl

"I get up, go shopping, clean the flat,

cook my boyfriend's dinner. It's great selling records,
but it doesn't mean you have to turn into a freak." --
Dido

"We're complete opposites. I'm fat.

He's skinny. He's married to Kate Hudson.
I could make her happy in bed." --
John Popper on Chris Robinson

"I have a photograph of my grandfather

driving a donkey cart barefoot." --
NELLY FURTADO on her humble roots

"I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial

with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder." --
TRENT REZNOR on his reluctance to do soundtrack work

"We used to joke that we wouldn't be proper rock stars

until we'd hung out in a drag
bar with Mick Jagger. Then, sure enough . . ." --
ROB THOMAS of MATCHBOX TWENTY

"We were supposed to be the alt.country Nirvana.

I guess I was supposed to hang myself with a banjo string." --
RYAN ADAMS on WHISKEYTOWN

"I've either got an acute case of hypochondria

or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three." --
COLDPLAY's CHRIS MARTIN on the band's illness-ridden U.S. tour

"I'm going to be honest with you.

We are here for the money." --
OASIS' NOEL GALLAGHER during Rock in Rio

"I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave.
Except that I can't swim,
 so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight." --
SHAGGY on his success

"I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver,

with tears running down my face.
I had no idea everyone had such a hard time."
-- STEVIE NICKS on "Behind the Music"

"I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself." --

ERIC CLAPTON

"They're sweet, but they've got no balls.

You want to take them home and give them a glass of milk.
You wouldn't want to f**k them."
-- SHARON OSBOURNE on 'N SYNC

"I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth." --

STEVEN TYLER of AEROSMITH

"Whether it's playing brutal f**king music,

making love or surfing with Patrick Swayze -
- you give everything you can." --
COREY TAYLOR of SLIPKNOT

"No cars dropping down from the ceiling,

none of that s**t. The whole stage is gonna be black." -
JOHN MELLENCAMP on his upcoming tour

"Everybody wants to go to a club or watch a movie,

and I have to stay home and do homework. How is that fair?" --
MANDY MOORE on touring

"I just hope people don't get sick of us.

I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child." --
BEYONCE KNOWLES

"At the end of the day, we're just public servants." --

FRAN HEALY of TRAVIS

"When I go to karaoke,
I'm still the worst guy there." --
MARK McGRATH of SUGAR RAY

"I like performing live, but to actually be out

there being the star . . . no. Send in the clones." --
SADE
 "I didn't think anything we did was spectacular.
I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'" --
OZZY OSBOURNE on the early days of BLACK SABBATH

"At one point, I thought about every ideological position

I'd taken over the past twenty years,
and I realized that I was generally full of shit."-
- MOBY

"It's going to scare some people,

because that's what good music does."
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK on 'N SYNC's upcoming album

"We slam 'em in the head for an hour, and we out." --

COBY DICK of PAPA ROACH on their short sets

"It's a Jane's Addiction show!

You'd expect somebody to be smoking pot or something,
but everyone was drinking bottled water." --
WEEZER's RIVERS CUOMO on the lack of drugs at the Coachella Festival

"Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children." --

BONO of U2

"Just because you dress sexy doesn't mean you're a bad girl;
it just means you know how to dress." --
JENNIFER LOPEZ

"We don't do pop-star parties.

We don't do drugs in toilets. We just make music." --
NOODLES WASSERMAN of OFFSPRING

"I'm usually in the hotel watching the pay-per-

view movie for the third time. It's a thrill a minute with us." --
DAVE MATTHEWS on touring

"We're not exposed to a lot of guys." --

DESTINY'S CHILD'S BEYONCE KNOWLES

"If I were penniless or a family member needed a kidney transplant, sure." --

FRANK BLACK on a possible PIXIES reunion.

"Any day you wake up and the ground

isn't shaking is a good day." --
C.C. DEVILLE of POISON
 "Not many people want to socialize with us.
They go, 'Best to leave the animals alone.'" --
ANGUS YOUNG of AC/DC

"To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.

Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me."
-- MICHAEL STIPE of R.E.M.

"I was kind of leaning toward 'Boston's Greatest Hits,'

but for some reason the legal department said no.
I think it would have been a really big seller." --
PETER BUCK on coming up with a name for R.E.M.'s new album

"I think the fact that I look totally artificial,

but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it." --
DOLLY PARTON

"I tried to think about what pisses me off

and why and how people could relate to that
rather than just saying, 'The devil's over there f**king your mother.'" --
SLAYER'S KERRY KING on his new approach to writing lyrics

"When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction

in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music
made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair." --
MOBY

"It's fun to push buttons.

If you're not making someone pick sides, it's not art." --
JOSH HOMME of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

"I don't want to be a 'Where Are They Now' on VH1 . . .

Maybe when I'm fifty. Not now." --
TONI BRAXTON

"It doesn't have to be about 'I'm the best looking guy,'

because I'm not. But I will walk in and f**k your girlfriend
no matter how good-looking you are." --
GENE SIMMONS of KISS

"I was marinated in failure. I'd just sort of take it

all on the chin. When something bad could happen,
I'd laugh, like 'Bring it on. I've seen much worse.'" --
DAVID GRAY on his career before his breakthrough
 "I like to hear crazy rumors. Didn't I die in a car accident?
My mom called me about that one -- she was really concerned." --
WEEZER's RIVERS CUOMO on his band's long hiatus.

"People think we really look good.

I think that's the biggest misconception people have." --
GREEN DAY's BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

"F**k keeping it real, let's keep it entertaining.

There's not a kid in our audience who thinks we're axe-murdering serial killers." --
INSANE CLOWN POSSE's VIOLENT J

"It's like a professional runner kicking

the wall all day long." --
OZZY OSBOURNE on being a singer who smokes

"I've worked at a couple of gas stations.

I think that I probably didn't like it at the time,
but when I think about it now, it seems very romantic to me." --
E of the EELS

"My whole stage costume was covered --

and I had ten more songs to go, and it smelled so bad I was gagging.
In thirty years the snake had never done that." --
ALICE COOPER on his snake's surprising stage antic

"I wanted Britney to sing the second line,

'You ain't seen nothin' till you're down on the muffin.'
But she wasn't having ANY of it."
-- AEROSMITH's STEVEN TYLER on the Super Bowl halftime show

"I have no idea. They pop up from time to time.

We have like forty, fifty -- it changes all
the time because they have babies and everything." --
SLASH on his pet snakes

"I don't buy into the idea that you're not

supposed to rock & roll after a certain date.
Sure, when you pick it apart,
maybe I should be in Bellevue.
But I'm just having a good time." --
AEROSMITH's STEVEN TYLER

"I noticed, in case anyone wants to know,

that the Grammy glow of celebrity
lasts exactly twenty-four hours."
-- STEELY DAN's DONALD FAGEN

"It's the new LSD -- lead singer's drug." --

COURTNEY LOVE on Vicodin

"It's been great puking up here" --

SHANE MACGOWAN after throwing
up on stage in Chicago.

"If Jennifer Lopez could write songs

like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to
spend so many hours at the gym." --
GARBAGE's SHIRLEY MANSON

"We wear black for all the unemployed

and poor people of the world." --
PAPA ROACH bassist TOBIN ESPERANCE

"Pedialyte's a super-Gatorade that they give

infants when they're dehydrated.
It's on all our riders now.
Drink a liter of grape Pedialyte and no hangover.
The guys from Pantera taught us that trick." --
GODSMACK's SULLY ERNA

"To me, it's important to prove that this

isn't just teenage kids' s**t and
you should feel embarrassed when you're
over forty and still doing it." --
KEITH RICHARDS on rock & roll

"I would do anything to be around music.

You don't even have to pay me." -
- EDDIE VEDDER

"I'm not starring in the movie. I'm narrating.

It's just a job." --
SNOOP DOGG on the new porno movie he's directing

"By the time we are seniors,

and there's a fourth album out,
we're going to be highly respected."
-- ERIK-MICHAEL ESTRADA of O-TOWN
"I'd give anything if I had
stayed my butt at home." --
SEAN "PUFFY" COMBS on the nightclub incident

"There won't be any moonwalking tonight

because I broke my foot dancing."
-- MICHAEL JACKSON at the Rock & Roll Hall
of Fame Induction Ceremony

"I regret the ending of our friendship

and hope one day before we die, we'll
make peace with each other . . . No rush."
-- PAUL SIMON on ART GARFUNKEL

"Now I can make a thousand

dollars a night at a club." --
SHELBY LYNNE on her Grammy win.

"It's not to get out to any new fans,

or radio play or MTV.
Our goal is just to make sure our maggots
are taken care of."
-- JOEY JORDISON of SLIPKNOT
on the band's next album

"I don't have room in my life for folks

that large and demanding." --
DR. DRE on turning down a
request to work with Michael Jackson

"I'm a peaceful, positive role model making records.

What they try to do is take me down
the back roads of where I used to be.
" -- SNOOP DOGG on Death Row Records

"I've got strippers.

And strippers plus Shaggy is ratings." --
SHAGGY on his next video

"I think aliens dig us too."

-- DRE of OUTKAST on their wide appeal

"Lots of profanity. Lots of gay-bashing.

A lot of anti-women statements.
I think it's gonna be huge!" --
SHERYL CROW on her next album
"Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now,
which is weird, because Shaggy is
more like a character that I play." --
SHAGGY

"If I weren't in the band,

I would be a fan." --
RICK NIELSEN on CHEAP TRICK

"Who the f**k is Steely Dan?" -- EMINEM

"In the end, I'm coming up a bit

too Bono for some tastes, including my own." --
BONO

"Despite my own doubts of being marketable

or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record
of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody." --
STEPHEN MALKMUS

"Sometimes I feel uncomfortable.

'Cause I'm no stripper. I'm up there doing
something I believe in." --
D'ANGELO on his stage antics

"If I flop, I'm moving to another country,

growing dreads and changing my name to Abugula!" --
EVE

"We get a free trip to Disney World for us and our escorts,
an extended weekend. All our breakfasts are covered
as long as they're continental breakfasts."
-- STEELY DAN's WALTER BECKER
after winning the Album of the Year Grammy

"Normally the people who meet us look scared, like we're going to eat
their children or something." --
GENE TROUTMAN, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

"An herb is not a drug. It's good for stress.

When you need some temporary help in getting
through the day, cannabis is the best way." --
WILLIE NELSON

"London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned,

unless you want to have your head blown off with
some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music." --
JEFF BECK

"It's weird juggling children in a rhinestone outfit." --

MADONNA on motherhood

"Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance.

There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself." --
PETE TOWNSHEND