Peaches
Quotes by Peaches
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I was trying to mix Kraftwerk and the Stooges and all these different kinds of things. People just didn't understand it.
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One of my first shows was for NME in England, and it was a showcase. I was the first band on and the Strokes were the second band and we were both quite new, and the NME wrote in the paper the next day, 'Grandma, you're scaring the kids.' I was 33.
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A theater in Berlin asked me if I wanted to do a theater production. Right away I said I wanted to do 'Peaches Christ Superstar' as a one-woman show. I've had this idea since I was about 14, when I used to listen to the 'Jesus Christ Superstar' soundtrack and just act it out by myself.
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Teaches of Peaches' was a really heavy breakup album - I've actually never told anybody about this, but right before that album, I found out I had thyroid cancer.
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My aunt and uncle took me to Disneyland when I was a kid. I threw up my chili dog all over Space Mountain.
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Actually, there's one PVC costume I got. I was on the official Electroclash tour of 2001, and I had this band W.I.T. come onstage and throw cream pies at me while I sang. The cream pie on PVC never washed out.
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I grew up in a Jewish community where you listened to 'Fiddler on the Roof' and 'West Side Story.'
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Wendy O. Williams is the single most incredible performer ever. Nobody went to more extremes. She was chain-sawing stuff and jumping out of cars during live shows and having them blow up. That must have been exciting, when you could do things in clubs they would not allow now.
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My first review in NOW Magazine - I played one machine, so I went to a soloist night, where everyone else played acoustic guitar. And I think the comment was, 'Peaches made a one-woman, hair-raising throwdown, and then we got back to music.' To me that was a win - I was like, 'Wow, I have broken the mould.'
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