- ...Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.
- My dad wanted me to grow up and be a business man like him, my mum wanted me to grow up and go to heaven like her!
- If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
- We live in a strange bubble.
- If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.
- Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
- Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.
- It was weird, because we did used to get quite a bit of abuse at the beginning. It was paradoxical to me because I'd think, 'why buy a ticket to come here and abuse me?' But I enjoyed the experience. No matter how much abuse I got, I was the one with the microphone, and I always came out on top. The thing that hurt the most was being 'coined' in the States. We were on tour opening for Weezer, and their audience at one gig were throwing coins at us. That really fucking hurts, man. But at the end of the gig, we gathered up all the coins onstage, went out and bought a round of drinks.
- My intention was never really to shock. The cross-dressing was more of a political act. We were trying to challenge the homophobia that we'd witnessed in the music scene. Basically, I wanted anybody who was slightly homophobic in the audience to look at me and go, 'ooh, she's hot. I'd like to fuck her', before realising that 'her' name was Brian, and then have to ask themselves a few questions about, shall we say, the fluidity of sexuality itself. It was an aesthetic choice, but it was also a political act.
- [2009, Bucharest] Ladies and gentlemen, my partner in crime for 15 years... the Queen of Sweden - Mister Stefan Olsdal! [Stefan Olsdal: If there's a queen, the queen needs a king... well actually, another queen will do. This is my Drama Queen - Miss Brian Molko, the one and only.]
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