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New interview in the Daily Northwestern

So, anyone out there going to see the ‘chords tonight? Yes? You lucky duck you! For the rest of us longing for some laughs from the boys, here is an interview from the Daily Northwestern:

My favorite parts:

Q: How are you dealing with the fame?

Jemaine: It feels like when I went to a new school, across town, and I was the only new kid there. It just puts you on this uneven footing with people. It feels like people have got something on you, they know something about you, and you don’t know anything about them. They can comment directly on your life, and it’s really weird.

Bret: It alters the world around you slightly. There are probably more good things than bad things. Like, you might get a free piece of cake.

Jemaine: And you can’t complain about things like that. I’m sure there’ll be more cakes.

Bret: It’s flattering that people like the show so much. We just make sure we have a clear exit to get out of there.

Q: Do you have any secrets you can share?

Bret: I have the ability to fly, but I don’t use it anymore. The air in the city in the U.S. doesn’t work for me very well.

Jemaine: And it’s a different gravity on Earth. New Zealand’s a different planet.

Bret: Jemaine can hear people’s thoughts.

Bret: A lot of people think we must get high and then write songs.

Jemaine: Which we don’t. But I do like stoner comedy, even though I don’t really like drugs. (mumbles with Bret) I can say that. I know it’s not cool to say that.

Bret: It’s not that we don’t like them, it’s that we don’t use them.

Jemaine: I don’t like them. I don’t like the idea of them. But, I do love a lot of drug influenced things - like Jimi Hendrix’s music, Cheech and Chong’s comedy.

Bret: I don’t use drugs, but I’m a big fan of alternative realities.

Jemaine: I grew up around drugs, and that put me off to them.

Bret: I grew up with drugs a little bit, but then I gave up. I was out of control.

Jemaine: My dad was a big hippie, and he used to grow marijuana plants. And we used to go out to the country, down into these forests, and anyway, the concern was the police would be around - I think right then I decided I’d never do drugs and I still haven’t.

Bret: Jemaine still has a problem with the cops. He doesn’t trust the po’.

Jemaine: Even though I don’t do anything illegal.

Jemaine: Once when I was young, I graffitied my own toilet at home, in pencil. It said something about how “The Pigs Suck” or something like that and my mom was screaming, “who wrote ‘The Pigs Suck’ on the toilet? ” It rubbed off. Fortunately, it was in pencil. It was a lonely rebellion against the police force.

Bret: Yeah, pretty underground.

Ok, I realize that I quoted most of the interview, but damn it, the whole thing was great!