"I was probably pressing the gas pedal too hard. I was difficult and demanding, and a large part of the responsibility…"

"If you don’t take a certain risk, you stagnate. For us, stagnation was never an option."

"An album is a statement. Otherwise, there is no reason to make it."

"In that sense, Bog became a document of our disintegration, even though there is not a single word about it in the ly…"

"I see concerts as a kind of meeting — a spontaneous gathering where we can lie to ourselves for two and a half hours …"

"We play extremely well, but you have to be an ultra-astronaut not to be disturbed by the constant murmur of the audie…"

"We are just a litmus test of a country on the edge of a nervous breakdown."

"For me, Pips were what the Beatles were to George Martin."

"The best album I ever worked on was their Fred Astaire."

"Of course Pips are my child — I’m talking about the old Pips and the old songs I co-authored."