► “If I’m rebelling against anything it’s being pigeonholed. I’ve never been easily classifiable, yet my whole life people have given me labels and tried to convince me that I’m things that I’m not, just because it suits them. Even  now, with the band, people are constantly trying to tell me that my work is a certain genre, or telling me that I’m clearly influenced by so-and-so, even if it’s someone I dislike or have never even fucking heard of.”

► Karl Steiger, 2008.

► “You know how films like ‘Rebel Without A Cause’ and ‘Easy Rider’ influenced a lot of cool people when they were kids? Well, I was influenced by a low budget British horror movie from the seventies called ‘Psychomania’. I’m telling you, man, ‘Psychomania’ was my ‘The Wild One’, you know what I mean? It had a cool opening tune, which was my first exposure to creepy rock and roll, as opposed to the usual orchestral stuff found in horror movies. There were cool bikers, cute girls in tight leather, rebelliousness in abundance, pacts with the devil, and the idea of living forever by dying young. My mum taped it off the television, and I discovered the video cassette in a cupboard around the age of seven. I must have watched that movie a hundred times; it definitely has a lot to answer for.”

► Karl Steiger, 2008.

► “I’m not sure I like being called a rebel, because it implies that I care what people think of me. While I don’t do things because other people are doing them, it’s also true that I don’t do things on the basis that other people don’t want me to do them. I just do whatever I want to do, pure and simple.”

► Karl Steiger, 2008.

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