melissa auf der maur....in her words

http://melissaaufdermaur.org/content/page/10/quotes_by_melissa


"All of us are half men and half women we have just as much masculine as feminine, so I would definitely describe the new project as me wrestling with those two sides."



"I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks."


"I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money."


"I am still making up songs in my head and on my answering machine."


"I must've been a rastafarian in a previous life. They think their hair is an extension of themselves, and every time I get mine cut, I cry. My mother is a big Bob Marley fan. Maybe that explains it. "


"I'm glad I spent a chapter of my life there to really get to know the ugly beauty of the American dream."


"The bass is the mother of all instruments."



"I get so into it. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something."
-Melissa on playing bass



"I do fuck, but i don't say fuck"
-Melissa after Courtney tries to get the audience to get Melissa to say fuck


"Canadian red-head, believes in aliens or other worlds. Likes sexy rock music. You must be able to take acid and not freak out."
-Personal ad


"I was just considering to start playing bass, and when I saw D'arcy playing those Gish songs, with these wacked out, kinda trippy guys, I just thought: I want to be this girl."


"I have to point out that I was born on St. Patrick's day and that both my parents have black hair and that I came out redheaded and pale. I mean I have lots of Irish in my blood, so it makes sense, but the redhead gene is a completely schizophrenic, chaotic DNA thing that makes no sense at all. they just come up whenever. there's no predicting it. scientists can't pin it down. so it's always been kind of a big hang up of mine. when I was a kid, I thought it was gross. and I was like, "i wanna be like everyone else. Please take away this red hair." but then throughout the years, I realized it was special. Someone gave me— I think a makeup artist —this scientific explanation that our pigment is fucked up and something we have reacts weird to the sun so freckles are the reaction. sometimes if I'm on mushrooms or something and I look in the mirror, I look green and I feel like there's major yellow. the moral of the story is that supposedly redheads have a wider color spectrum in their skin. there's green, blue, purple and brown in my skin so supposedly we can wear more colors than most people."