Talk It Up: The best quotes from Rip It Up in 2009 pt. 1

The year is drawing to a close. But before it does, Rip It Up Digital is looking back on the highlights of 2009. Check out some of the best quotes to grace the pages of Rip It Up this year.

“It’s been a while since I stole a car. All these new fancy cars, it’s not that easy any more.”
    - Nick ‘McCarthief’ McCarthy, Franz Ferdinand, issue 1018

“I think Emma Bunton from the Spice Girls’ great, great, great, great, great, great granddad owned my great, great, great, great, great, great granddad, so that’s why we have the same surname. Tell Emma I broke free and I’m never coming home again!”
    - Jaleel Bunton, TV On The Radio, issue 1019

“We had the security guards on our backs, saying ‘calm the crowd down, calm the crowd down’, and I’m like, ‘Fucking hell, man, I’m sure that’s not my job. My job’s to fucking wind the crowd up!’”
    - Declan Melia, British India, issue 1041

“Once you get on the inside, you look like Bono who goes for holidays on yachts with Tony Blair. If you’re on the inside, you’re bought and paid for man. I'd spit in Tony Blair’s face man, it’d make more headlines.”
    - Jon McClure, Reverend & The Makers, issue 1048

“Just today Trent Reznor and I were watching and laughing about the Christian Bale tantrum thing. Are people really that interested in that shit?”
    - Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Nine Inch Nails, issue 1021

“We have a lot of appreciation for Girls Aloud.”
    - Charles Cave, White Lies, issue 1028

“I was in Pete Murray’s band and I sucked, so I got fired. I was always trying to upstage him.”
    - Kate Miller-Heidke, issue 1033

“I’m not confident (our album will sell). All I’m confident in is our ability to play live. But I don’t know if I’m gonna be judging our success based on record sales because that’s the reality of it: nobody buys records these days.”
    - Dougy, The Temper Trap, issue 1040

“I don’t really have suicidal thoughts any more, which is good news.”
    - E, Eels, issue 1041

“I don’t think too many films have influenced our sound, but maybe Home Alone 1 or 2 have made their way in there.”
    - Adam Thompson, We Were Promised Jetpacks, issue 1045

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