I think it's because all our music videos have chubby girls wearing crazy makeup and crazy gay dudes and trannies that are overly stylized and over-the-top. Being compared to John Waters and girl groups isn't a bad thing, though.
Hunx
Gravy Train!!!! started out as a joke where we'd crash parties and be really obnoxious, and then somehow we got somewhat famous, and it was really weird.
Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making zines and stuff. I thought I was too punk for art and felt grossed out by white-room galleries and art people.
I traded all my 'Star Wars' toys for Pee-wee Herman toys. I wonder if I had a crush or him or something? The colors and the way that everything looked so cool or crazy just appealed to me as a young gay in Tucson.
There's one side of me that just wants to get up on stage and be punk and go crazy and stuff like that; and there's also this other side of me that's like a grandma - really into arts and crafts.
I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.
I don't have any qualms about selling out.
The music is super fun. I love writing the songs. I love performing, for the most part, and I love doing artwork, but I hate answering 100 emails a day and most interviews.
Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that brands create a whole illusion of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool little secret.
I went to beauty school when I was 19 because I thought it seemed funny, not because I thought I'd be good at it. I was terrible at first. I gave a girl a perm, and she cried.
I don't know if this is necessarily a misconception, but I think people make way more a deal out of my sexuality than necessary.
Being a hairdresser is really fun, especially if you don't work at a stupid rich-lady place. You basically just get paid to hang out and talk with a bunch of cool, weird ladies and help them with their looks.
I'm basically a mom who loves vision boards, dream lists, and 'The Secret.'
I wear a lot of wigs and stuff on stage to make my hair look bigger.
Gravy Train!!!! damaged me because I don't think I will ever again experience something so intense and exciting. We were so young and pent up - and didn't care about anything else in the world.
Everyone tries to be so slick and modern and computerized. I've always done everything myself with little money, so I guess it's become 'my look,' but it's not really intentional.
In my day-to-day life, I'm not that wild.
In San Francisco, I lived in Bayview-Hunters Point.
I love it at our shows when there's the big, tough, punk guys standing next to the weird teenagers and the gay guys. It's so weird, and it's so awesome.
I have so many photos of myself in my room when I was a kid; I had one wall that was all TLC posters that I got free at some record store, then another wall was all Public Enemy, and the last wall was all '90210.'
I love the beach.
I'm a strong believer in just doing your thing. No matter what.
I would get plastic surgery. It sounds fun.
If I could be on any show, I think I'd want to be on 'Bad Girls Club.'
Perry Farrell is so gross, and his wife looks like a monkey.
Just because I have a sense of humor and use bright colors, people always say it's 'camp.' I'm just doing my thing. I think of it as art.
Beauty school gave me brain damage.
Several times, I've been talking with some gross person at a party and had them literally walk away - mid convo - to ruthlessly approach someone more famous.
I love the idea of not being able to afford something and just making your own version or buying a cheap knock-off instead.
I think performers who pretend fashion doesn't matter are huge liars.
I like in-person interviews, but I do a lot of interviews over the phone, and it's so boring. The same questions over and over.
I'm not sure, exactly, why someone would want to move to S.F. or N.Y.C., even. I would only wanna live in L.A. or a tiny town like Provincetown or Palm Springs or Guerneville or something like that.
'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't like that album.
I dress kind of flashy.
Bouncers suck.
I'd love to work on art and music full time.
Falling off stages or making out with gross guys isn't something I'm very fond of.
If I wanted to make a subversive record, it would be horrifying and insane.
Sometimes I fantasize about becoming a cartoon and only making music for cartoons. I can easily visualize my future in music when I go into that fantasy in my head.
I really love 'Hairspray.' I love the idea of this teenage dance show where you have to go through all these competitions to get to the next level.
My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.
I live for Snooki. She's so cute. I love her so much.
I've met people who are embarrassed of the stuff they've done, and they try to hide it. And I'm not embarrassed of anything.
Hunx is kind of his own person that is not really me in my normal life.
I think I'm a really sweet guy, kind of shy and nice and stuff.
I really want to make the gayest, gayest album ever.
I'm, like, forever a teenage girl in a way. No matter how hard I try not to be, that's just what I am. All I care about is boys and shopping.
I just don't want to be boring.
I just find it weird if you're in a band and you don't know how to make it look the way it sounds. You really need to be involved with the entire creative process in order for it to totally work.
I've tried to stalk Danzig. I've walked by his house on Franklin that looks super haunted and scary, but I've never seen him.
