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"We are bonkers - always have been, and proud of it." - Geoff and Adrian of Portishead. catalyst #10

"They seem to like the performing arts, and they feel comfortable being here." - Patrice Kennedy, Centennial Hall event coordinator, on the Hall's reputed ghosts. catalyst #10

"I think the '70s was a good time. It will never come back. As soon as crack cocaine hit the streets it changed everything." - Erik Estrada, aka "Ponch" Ponchorello of CHiPS. catalyst #9

"That was a really heavy spiritual moment. There's seven or eight guys in the room, people shooting at you, and we all survived. We walked away, saved by the Almighty. Then we went on and played in front of 80,000." Donald Kinsey, of the Kinsey Report, about the assassination attempt on Bob Marley. catalyst #12

"That was a really heavy spiritual moment. There's seven or eight guys in the room, people shooting at you, and we all survived. We walked away, saved by the Almighty. Then we went on and played in front of 80,000." Donald Kinsey, of the Kinsey Report, about the assassination attempt on Bob Marley. catalyst #12

"I think at one point this whole (what they call) alternative rock thing seemed really exciting - there was this whole batch of new bands that came along with Nirvana and whatnot. People were really excited... and I think the excitement, the novelty of that whole thing, has kinda worn off." - Mark Arm of Mudhoney. catalyst #14

"We're full of a bunch of egomaniacs with attention deficit disorder." - Shaun Clayton, Pima Community College theater arts student and writer for cable access sketch comedy show Video Difficulties. catalyst #5

"They don't have trees like that where I'm from" Shirley Manson, of Garbage, about the palm trees at Hayden Square Amphitheater, Tempe. catalyst #7

"Did we throw a bunny in a shredder to make it disappear the last time we were there?" - Teller of Penn and Teller

"I like watching 300-pound bald men jiggle around in a ring in next to nothing." - James Casey, catalyst reporter. catalyst #8

"I think during one day, everybody goes through all the feelings they have. Happy, sad, bored, excited - then you go to sleep, you kinda die, and then you're born again in the morning. I think it's the fundamental cycle of a person." - Mike Watt, punk rocker. catalyst #4

"There's 'powder' and 'pow.' 'Crud' [is heavier and hard to turn in]. 'Dust on crust' [fresh, thin snow on old] ... 'chickenheads' are hard snow lumps found under the dust, and 'death cookies' are sheet-like chunks and you can hit them with your skies. 'Freshies' refers to new snow, too, and 'bottomless' is endless powder resulting in 'faceshots'

[or a very cold, snow-encrusted face]." - Skier Kristen Lignell, on snow. catalyst #14

"If you have a camera and say you're shooting a student film, you can do anything you want on campus. You can smoke crack, shoot somebody, they do not care." - Zack Keyworth, student filmmaker. catalyst #10

"I love it when guys come up to me: 'I saw you in the sci-fi thing... you sucked!' And then you gotta explain. You don't know them, but you're still explaining: 'I did it for the money! I wasn't stable at that time, I really did. My agent told me not to do it, but I did.'" - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, about a movie he did with Soleil Moon-Frye. catalyst #1

"It's just not difficult to get Tucsonans to put on weird masks and run around the street. Not every city's like that, you know ... I would think, 'Those people aren't going to do that, what kind of wacko behavior is that?' And you know people in Tucson are just so down with that, they're like, 'Yeah, I got me a big ol' head in the garage, I got me some rockets, I'm good to go ... just let me at it!'" - Nadia Hagen, coordinator of the annual Tucson All Soul's Day Parade. catalyst #11

"Yee-haw." - Tom Collins, catalyst reporter. catalyst #1

"In order to achieve good health, the most important thing, is that you must never, never work." - Quentin Crisp, 89-year-old writer/raconteur. catalyst #11

"McFeely's good. He's very, very good... but are we talking about methamphetamine consumption here? McFeely eats those babies like skittles. I'm a bourbon man myself... that, and cough medications." - Milkman Dan, "Red Meat" citizen. catalyst #13

"I love vans, I think vans should be the only form of transportation that should exist." -Lee Ross, of local band Splendida. catalyst #6

"Pornography can be a sleazy industry, but it's no more sleazy than certain aspects of the music industry." - Candy Kane, singer/songwriter. catalyst #6

"I used to fast for thirty days, putting on four shows a week. I just lived off of tea and honey. I tell you, I've got a fucking war with those veeegans." - Dick Dale, catalyst #11