"Don't hate us because our hockey team beat yours."- Darcy at the 9/28/96 show in Canda(referring to how the US won the Stanley Cup over Canada)
"James isn't really James. He's a robot."
"...to the security guards...Don't be so rough on the kids! We didn't pay you to behave like fucking nazis!"- D'arcy yelling at the security guards during a recent sp concert.
I have to be literally out of my body, if i 'come back' for one moment i am sh*t scared, vomit scared. Billy will be like "why did you f*ck up back there?" and i'll be like "I don't remember, i wasn't there." - D'arcy, on getting stage fright
"Look at the name of the band. How can people think we take everything so seriously when we're called the Smashing Pumpkins???"
"I was known for throwing knives"-referring to her high school years.
"Interviewer: Billy, what's your biggest hope for the album? D'arcy: The biggest hoke? Billy: No, no, this is serious. D'arcy: Oh, ok. 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."-D'arcy and Billy during an interview before Mellon Collie was released.
people bring us pumpkins...they have pumpkin motifs in our dressing rooms. i mean, this one girl actually asked us if we changed our name for every holiday---like we'd be the 'smashing turkeys', or the 'smashing santa clasuses', the 'smashing christopher columbuses' and she was serious! can you believe that??"
"Sometimes you're up on stage and you look down and think, 'These kids are getting younger and younger. Oh no! I'm getting older and older! Oh no! I'm too old to be doing this!' But it's still good and I'll keep going as long as it feels right."
"Ahhh! hahahahahaha! Jimmy's one legged girl friend! hahahahahahahahaha! "
"What's the first thing you would grab if your house was on fire?" "My husband." -D'Arcy, interview from Beak magizine
"Now, don't ask me any stupid questions."
"People got so upset that Nirvana got huge. I'd rather see Nirvana making shitloads of money than Michael Jackson, you know."
"We don't have a set list that's the same every night, and we don't have choreographed moves like Guns N' Roses." (Faces Magizine, Jan./Feb. 1997)
"It's just a matter of when - When's the bomb going to explode?"
Billy: "It was our Titanic song." Reporter: "Your "My Heart Will Go On"." D'arcy: "Oh God. We use that song to pump ourselves up before shows. We like to replace it with different organs." Billy: "hahaha, 'My liver will go on'."
"Being in a band is like being married to four people you'd never even want to date."
"That man can you look you right in the eyes and lie. I guess the contacts help." - about Marilyn Manson
"James just likes the idea of being a rock star. You can tell by the blue eye shadow."
Q: "You are touring the world with Adore--some 14 shows across the planet in a month. What inspired you to play to the planet in such a short amount of time?" D'arcy: "Well, we went to Disney World and they have this ride. It's called "It's A Small World". That song gets stuck in your head (singing) It's a small, small world na na na na na, it's a small world. It's a small world."
Q: "Prior to the albums release, Billy did a solo show at the Viper Room and performed a song called "Let Me Give The World To You" which was meant to be on Adore. What happened to that song?" D'arcy: "Maybe it will come out as a B side but we'll have to change the title to something liek Let Me Give The Universe To You. That goes back to the same thing. When we went on the ride at Disney, we thought the world was so small. It was a small, small world and that if it's that small, it's just not enough."
Q: "What rumors go around about the band that get back to you?" D'arcy: " Well, I've been pregnant five times. The band has broken up I don't know how many times. James died--twice."
Q: How do you keep a level head when you hear the rumors? D'arcy:I think it's kind of funny. Call me twisted. You know what's really funny is that my father who is not so press savvy or very worldly either, every time he hears these things, he believes it. He wants another grandchild. He'll say something like "no really, really, when are you due? Tell me, I'm your father. Come on, you can be honest with me."
Q: There's talk of the Pistachio Medley idea from the Zero EP being redeveloped for the next album. D'arcy: That was something like snippets of songs that had already been done, just edited together. That doesn't take a whole band to go into the studio to edit snippets of songs together. It was done just for the fun of it, but for the band it would be like too many cooks in the kitchen. If Billy wants to spend his vacation doing that, then more power to him. I'm going home. "
Q: Do you get excited meeting famous people these days? D'arcy: Occasionally. Not so much anymore. I'm just too jaded and cynical these days. There are certain things that I just become obsessed with. Those would be a couple of those things. David Duchovny would be one, definitely. I can't think of anyone else, maybe Homre if he was there, but I am really pissed off that he wasn't. Maybe Jerry Seinfeld. We went to see him play in Sydney, but he made us pay for our ticketd. He wouldn't even put us on the guest list. Typical. I don't think he really cares. I think he's a sports guy. I don't think he knows that you can do both. I don't think he know you can be fans of both music and sports and comedy. He was great, he was hysterical but I just couldn't believe it, we would never make him pay for tickets to our show. And on top of it, not only did we have to pay for our tickets, we are driving up to the venue and the guy who is with us, the promoter who arranged for the tickets, his cell phone rings. It's a call from Jerry's entourage saying "well, some other VIP's have showed up. Do you mind showin up to the later show?" I thought "What are you, crazy? We were just about to get out of the car and go in and of all the nerve. It's like someone more important has shown up, so do you mind skipping? (rolls her eyes sarcastically) New Yorkers."