Luke Haines > Quotes

“When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way”
― Luke Haines, Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

“With his pencil moustache hovering imperiously above his chops and a moist oily rag drooping from his mouth, this fucker looks more like Dad’s Army spiv Private Walker than any rock ’n’ roll refugee.”
― Luke Haines, Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

“Hit singles are a tricky-dick business: if they really were a piece of piss even you would write one. To write a hit you have to swallow your pride and engage, really engage, with the populace.”
― Luke Haines, Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

“But more important than both TLC and the All Saints is Billie Piper. Billie’s ‘Honey to the B’ is a smokin’ hot tune, it’s up there with the greats: Glen Campbell’s ‘Wichita Lineman’, ‘Tago Mago’ by Can, ‘Approximately Infinite Universe’ by Yoko, Metal Box by PiL, ‘Never Ever’ by the All Saints. Er, OK, so ‘Honey to the B’ is something of a ‘Never Ever’ lite, but this contrivance, like the very existence of the All Saints, somehow elevates Billie Piper into truly over-achieving high art.”
― Luke Haines, Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

“Remember, rock stars become rock stars because they are inveterate insecure attention-seeking babies and you may have written a couple of half-decent couplets and memorable tunes, amidst the doggerel and mud, and you really should be grateful that the public bought a couple of your songs in droves, but here’s the thing: you do not have to feel guilty, you do not have a higher calling, you just have too much time on your hands. Make more than one album every eight years, try a bit of acting. Alternately you could just remember you are a rock star and shut the fuck up, and please spare us your political insight.”
― Luke Haines, Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

“Selling rock ’n’ roll is like trying to sell a house built from asbestos. It’s no use and it will fucking kill you in the end.”
― Luke Haines, Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll