Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Fred Schneider

People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.

I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along.

I always wear Chuck Taylors, but then I found out that you could actually get your own shoes, so I mentioned it to the band, and they said, 'Yeah! Let's do it' And we got 'em. That's how it works.

I'll tell you what: Everything about the Trump administration is scary.

Call us the future from your past.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

I was the meal delivery coordinator for Clarke County for Meals on Wheels.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

A good fruit cake is good fruit cake. A bad one is really bad.

We weren't art students, but we definitely created our own style and were pretty influenced by Andy Warhol and all the stuff we read and saw and made fun of, you know.

I was interested in wildlife conservation, and I chose Georgia because they supposedly had a good forestry school. I figured it might be easier to get good grades there, too, because a lot of Southern kids would come up to school in New Jersey, and they'd always be a little behind, so I figured maybe I wouldn't have to work so hard.

Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd take a bus or a cab and check them out.

It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.

Everything changed after 'Love Shack.' We went 'mainstream.' 'Love Shack' set what people viewed us as, because a lot of people didn't realize we had a career before that.

There are a lot of people who are considered 'camp' who have no idea how ridiculous they are.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

We've always shared everything - writing credits, all the royalties - and there's no real leader because if there was one, we'd immediately depose them.

Jim Hightower, Ann Richards - there are quite a few intelligent regular Texans.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any money.

There are a lot of funny motels. There was one motel in the middle of nowhere: it was real plain, but it had a gigantic green monster, something like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, standing next to this lake.

I like Loretta Lynn.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

I like Scissor Sisters.

I collect all kinds of things.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

I am so not hooked into watching TV or listening to the radio, to be honest. Usually, when I do, I get angry.

I am a pacifist.

We don't have a constant PR person or anything. That's why people say. 'Oh, you're still together?' Yeah. I'm in Des Moines with the band, not because I'm sightseeing.