I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

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• Bernard Sumner:

  I entered music at a poppy level.

• Bernard Sumner:

  I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do

• Bernard Sumner:

  If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

• Bernard Sumner:

  I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

• Eugene Chadbourne:

  There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

• Eugene Chadbourne:

  There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

• Eugene Chadbourne:

  I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot

• Eugene Chadbourne:

  I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunge

• Eugene Chadbourne:

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• Eugene Chadbourne:

  I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.'