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QUOTES
"The music comes from our relationships. The important thing is not to let shite get in the way."
"I'm going to have lots of pets. Then hire Johnny Morris to sit in the corner of the room doing voices for them."
-Andy, on what he's going to do when he's famous 1997
"We were in Chelmsford a few weeks ago for a gig, and there were all these wee girls in skirts like belts, it were great."
-Andy on U16 Girls Volume 17 1977
"You're in a band to provide total entertainment. So many musicians in the 90's are in a band just for the sake of being
in a band. We want to make them feel better than when they're working in some supermarket or sitting in some offie, 'cos
we've all done that and it's fucking boring. If we can acheive fame on the way, it's nice."
-Andy, on wherher he's hungry for fame Select Feb 1997
"If we don't make our next record better than this one, why are people gonna want to listen to it?"
"The
thing is, with that tag of New Seriousness, when people come around and see us, they come away loving it. We play with a
smile in our eyes - not an ironic smile though, a smile of pure joy. Of beleif. New Seriousness tends to take away from
that."
"You know when you've read about 2 pages of a book and you haven't taken a single thing in? That's
the lowest point in life - when you go through life for 2 days without feeling like you haven't lived at all. If you're feeling
joy and you're feeling pain, then at least you're alive."
-The above 3 quotes are from Melody Maker June 1997
"It's about the basic human condition, wishing that you didn't give a fuck."
-Andy, on the meaning of 'The Stupid Factor' 1997
"Why can't we be serious and funny? I think with us, you'll only get the whole story at the end of the career. how
many albums that'll be, I don't know. But we're not out for the short term."
-Q magazine January 1998
"Ah, face it. You're at a festival, you've taken some funny mushrooms, you've just woken up with a girl you've never
met before, and you smell like shite! You're not gonna be worried about your feng shui!"
-Andy, on the importance of Feng Shui Melody Maker June 1998
The following is a conversation had by Andy and Fran at a festival... Readers beware... Maybe more information about Andy
than you might like to know... From Select September 1998
Fran: We want to nick Robbie's (Williams) football.
Andy: It would be better nicking his bird.
Fran: He's engaged
to her out of All Saints. I saw her earlier on and she was eyeing you up.
Andy: What Can I do? I fancy the other one.
You know, the member of All Saints with the beard. I think he's called 'Big Dave'.
"I wanna see an IMAX porno cinema. Dirty old men with 3D glasses on."
-Melody Maker May 1999
"I got called Elfie because I was always sitting on a stool, kinda banging away at things."
-Andy, on his nickname at Art School NME May 1999
"Far too many bands open their mouths before they have anything fucking decent to say. If something comes along that
we feel really strong about, then we will open our mouths about it, OK?"
-Andy, on politics NME July 1999
"I think it's true that it's a weak time for music, but if you put up what we've done in any era, it will stand up.
I really beleive that."
-NME July 1999
"I once had a perm!"
-Andy, revealing a shameful seceret Sky October 1999
"The most interesting thing about me is that I'm still alive. And the most boring thing about me is that I'm still alive."
-Sky October 1999
"The worst I've been was last Burns Night. It was fre whiskey and I lay on the floor and couldn't even remember my address.
My mates put me in a taxi home, and my girlfriend carries me in, sits me down, and says 'Andy, what's my name?' I still couldn't
remember an hour later, I just kept saying 'I love you...' I tell you, if you're ever that drunk, it works. She wasn't even
angry with me the next day."
-Andy, on the worst night of drunkness he'd ever had Sky October 1999
"If it's a show day, you've got your reward at the end."
-Andy, on working with no days off NME June 2000
Guitarist Andy Dunlop, the band's most accomplished musician and a shy, charming intellectual, dreads interviews and quakes
at celebrity. For him was reserved the most traumatic L.A. star experience. One morning as the hotel elevator bumped onto
the ground floor, the door opened to reveal Lou Reed waiting to go up. Unable to cope with the shock, Dunlop frantically stabbed
the Close Door button and shot up again, leaving the famously grouchy legend in the foyer. "You come down looking for
a bit of breakfast, and there's fucking Lou Reed standing there. I just couldn't deal with it. I was just staring into the
mirror in the lift going, Bloody hell, bloody hell, it's Lou Reed."
Andy Dunlop is the band's cultural antenna.
While Healy admits he owns few records and listens only to the radio, the gentle, bookish Dunlop is every inch the knowledgeable
fan. His Led Zeppelin, Who, Beatles, and Stones badges form a breastplate on his denim jacket and identify him as the keeper
of the band's hidden "rock beast" flame. It was his idea to add AC/DC's "Back in Black" to the Travis
set during the last U.S. tour. It is he who feels most relief that the band will never perform Britney Spears's "...Baby
One More Time" ever again. "Don't people know when a joke's over?" he moans.
From Q June 2001
"I don't think we take for granted anything that we've got. And I don't think you can. Y'know, Travis are Fran's songs.
Without that, all the rest of it wouldn't mean anything. It's not us. It's not even him--it's the songs. That's the whole
invisible band thing--these songs'll be around long after we're dust. And hopefully they'll last. It's not about us, it's
not about what haircuts we've got, what clothes we wear, what we even say about it. It's an emotional thing, way, way under
the surface. I'm damned if I can understand it, but it seems like we've got something nice."
From The Guardian June 2001
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