FRED SCHNEIDER

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

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

Call us the future from your past.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

I am a pacifist.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

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

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

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

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

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

I collect all kinds of things.

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

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.

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.

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

I like Loretta Lynn.

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

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

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

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.

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

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