Tegan and Sara - London Instore - Banter 1 (aliens + nme)

Sara (to audience): “For those of you who want to make a dash out and catch, um … well, do something else, maybe we won’t see you, but we’ll see you at the show, and if we’re not going to see you at the show or at the table, well fuck you”.

Tegan and Sara - London Instore - Banter 2 (nme + c0cks)

Sara (quoting NME review of The Con): “‘Twin airbags’…Tegan made a really good point though: airbags save lives… Buy our record, save a life.”

               

Tegan: “NME doesn’t like us anyway, so they can suck my cock, I don’t care.”

               

Tegan: “I don’t hate cock. I love cock! We all love cock in the band.”

Sara: “They love their own cocks and we just like cocks that just don’t have veins in them … They didn’t like the way you sucked their (NME) cocks.”

Tegan: “I want you to stop talking about cocks. I’m kind of uncomfortable, and um, my point was that you’re an airbag, but I’m not so... Sara wrote all the songs. So I just want everybody to know that I’m going to go home and desperately write a wicked ass record and then I’m going to come over here and get all fucked up on drugs and go laying around on the stage and scream hysterically and they can put me on the cover!”

Sara: “With me wearing a cock.”

Tegan: “That sounds like a brilliant cover actually. That would be really funny actually, to be wearing a tutu. And me with a bottle of JD in my hand.”

Sara: “Actually I’m really upset that you said the tutu part.”

Tegan: “Why?”

Sara: “Because then I imagine you in a tutu and me with a cock.”

 

Sara: “The people in our band don’t even swear. Like they literally don’t even swear. Can you imagine what it’s like to hang out with us all the time and you don’t even swear? They say ‘frick’ and ‘dang’ and we’re all like ‘COCK COCK COCK’!”

 

Tegan: “Like industry speak, like ‘how our numbers of shipments been decreased because…’”

Sara: “Sara likes cock?”

Tegan: “‘… Sara likes cock. Will that ruin their chance of being lesbian twins, come to the UK!’ Okay, we’re going to stop.”

Sara: “It’s like we’re on meth or something.”

Tegan: “Okay, we don’t do drugs! Obviously. That’s why we don’t talk. Yeah, so, okay. No, I’m just joking. I’m taking all that back. You know what? How do we fix this? … So we’re really glad you all came. It’s been a few months. We’re a little hyperactive. We’ve been stuck on a plane and so many people are recording right now, so this is going to be on the internet, and I just want to say to my mom that we’re sorry about the cock stuff.”

Sara: “And that ‘vein’ thing.”

Tegan and Sara - BBC 6 radio interview

Sara: (talking about her name) “Yeah, my mom was on hash. I was almost Jimmy Paige and then I was almost Stevie, like Stevie after Stevie Nix.”

BBC 6 Interviewer: “So you got out lightly then.”

Sara: “Sara almost had an i and an e in it at one point. I mean Tegan really got the worst of it.”

 

Sara: “When we come over here, a lot of people will just be like you’re from America. They’ll just call you American anyway. Do we need to have a different accent? Like, is it not Canadian enough?”

BBC 6 Interviewer: “You’ve got, I can hear the twang.”

Tegan: “Twang. That’s why we try and talk like Americans.”

 

t&s "let's be twins forever"

Sara: “I almost don’t understand people in bands. Like when I met them, I think to myself ‘How do you hang out with these people?’ I’m like I HAVE to hang out with her (Tegan). There’s no other choice!”

 

Tegan: “That says a lot about Sara’s personality, you know? That she would leave her family and her friends and leave everything and go to, like, this very, you know, different world. My natural instinct in this relationship, because it is like a relationship in so many ways that, because she pulls away, I want, I’m like clingy and I’m all like ‘Let’s be twins forever!’ you know? And she’s all like ‘blah, I’m moving to Montreal. Get away!’”

 

Tegan and Sara 101 - An Introduction to The Con (Part One)

THE SANDWICH TALK

Tegan: “I explicitly requested no cheese! … And there is no cheese. That’s fantastic.”  

Sara: “She makes a good sandwich huh?

Tegan: “Uh huh.”

Sara: “It’s amazing how you can use the same ingredients, but one sandwich won’t taste as good as any other.”

Tegan: “It’s all about placement. And she makes the thickest part the middle… pickle… It’s delicious... And that’s why we took her as our wife.”

 

Sara: “It’s like they pick the exact spot in heaven to walk around on the clouds.”

 

Sara: “Tegan felt like a piece of cherry pie… Wrap it up!”

 

Sara: “Oh for fuck’s sake! We gotta do it again. I hate it when fucking other motherfuckers call us.”

 

Tegan: “Well, this is, this is a fucking nice bed…zzzzz…”

 

Sara: “Can you ask me that question again - how my songs have been going. Can you ask me again?”

Tegan: “Why don’t you beg?”

Sara: “Hey. Why don’t you shut your fucking mouth?”

 

Tegan and Sara 101 - An Introduction to The Con (Part Two)

Sara: “It’s not real emotion. It’s femotion. I’m crying for NO reason.”

 

Tegan: “Clothes make me miserable. I actually like to spend most of my time in the nude. And this whole ‘recording a record’ with people around thing is really fucking that up.”

 

Sara: “Chris, I can’t perform like this, without my white gloves.”

Chris Walla: “I can get you the white gloves if you need them. You just say the word.”

Sara (from Tegan and Sara) talks about her pet guinea pig

 

Tegan and Sara - Strawberry Daiquiri

Tegan (inturpting Sara): “You’re not going to tell the same story!”

Sara: “Um, do I ever tell you what to say on stage, do I ever?”

Tegan: “But I never tell the same story.”

Sara: “Do I ever interject while you’re telling your story?”

Tegan: “Yeah, I think about every ten seconds.”

 

Tegan: “I’m generous and thoughtful and I spoon for six to eight hours every night.”

 

MTV.ca Sept 17

Sara: “My mom was a mad crazy synth keyboard player, so she did a lot of keyboards on the album, so… (Tegan gives her a weird look) But we won’t let her tour with us ‘cuz it kinda cramps our style.”

 

Tegan And Sara - Back In Your Head [Video Chapter]

Sara: “What I’m trying to say is with the song is that I’m not unfaithful, like, I’m not going to, like, cheat or have an affair, or something like that, but I’ll stray, you know, like, I’ll be into something else. Sometimes. Multiple times maybe, I don’t know. Multiple people at the same time, I don’t know. So…”

 

Tegan: “When you hear the shaker off the top, do you think about that fact that it’s…”

Chris Walla: “That it’s the chocolate covered sunflower seeds?”

Tegan: “Cuz I can stop thinking about it. It may have ruined the song for me.”

Chris Walla: “…It connects the song to the earth, ya know?”

Tegan: “Well so did Sara’s haricut in 1999.”

Sara: “Oh, 'cuz your hair cut was really, it was hip!”

 

Sara: “You’re making reference to when you kind of mumbled through your interview, when we were making So Jealous?”

Matt Sharp: “Yes.”

Tegan And Sara - Hop A Plane [Video Chapter]

Tegan: “I don’t know if I want you to film this lead, because I don’t want anyone to know what I’m doing. Because, then it would be like THE MOST PLAYED THING ever in guitar world.”

 

Tegan: “The first line of the song, the vocal, is it maybe too… ‘I’m in a stadium’?”

Some Guy: “Too many effects on it?”

Tegan: “There’s too many effects on you, right now.”

 

Making of Walking With A Ghost Tegan and Sara pt. 1

Tegan: “Yeah, I look gross. Pretty much, up until about five seconds before Sara came in and announced she had hives all over her neck, I was the ugly one.”

 

Tegan: “So take it. Before you go to bed we’ll get you two more and then we’ll set the alarm and take two more, and I’m sure a lot of the swelling will go down. Keep on it too. Don’t just go to bed and forget about it. If you wake up looking ugly, you’ll ruin our video.”

 

Tegan: “Are you excited that we’re late?”

Sara: “I didn’t know that we were supposed to be there by now. I’m just a visitor here.”

Making of Walking With A Ghost Tegan and Sara pt. 2