  KISS rocker Gene Simmons. (Ernest Doroszuk, Sun Media file photo)
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Quote 'em if you got 'em! Here's the best of what music makers had to say to Sun Media in 2008:
Famous References
"My first swimming instructor was my first crush. Anne Murray was my second crush, if you want to get picky about it." -- k.d. lang.
"I don't even know how I know who Marty McSorley is, to be honest." -- Kathleen Edwards on referencing the former Edmonton Oilers tough guy in her song I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory.
"We haven't hit Glass Tiger level yet. I don't even know if we've hit Serial Joe level." -- Tokyo Police Club keyboardist Graham Wright, on being the pride of Newmarket, Ont.
"In my mind, if you're starting by bringing in someone like Sheryl to do Christine's songs, it starts to get a little loungey." -- Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham, on an eventually dismissed idea to have Sheryl Crow fill in for Christine McVie on the band's 2009 tour.
"God bless 'em but that's not Led Zeppelin. I find it completely depressing. I'd never do anything like that." -- Chris Cornell, on the possibility of replacing Robert Plant if Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones decide to tour as Led Zeppelin next year.
"I hope you record it. But if you don't, no big deal, I'll just slit my wrists." -- Tom Jones, on what Bono said after he and U2 guitarist The Edge wrote the new song, Sugar Daddy, for Jones' new album.
"First, it was the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz and then Jaws, and that's it. No other movies have ever bothered me since." -- Heavy-metal-rocker-turned-horror-filmmaker Rob Zombie.
Wiser than most
"My cellphone is constantly ringing, like, every 15 seconds. It does a great job because if they don't have my album I encourage them to go pick it up." -- Flo Rida, on handing out his cellphone number to fans at concerts.
"I feel about 68 the same way as I felt about 28 -- it's another birthday. I love birthdays. I love gifts." -- Ringo Starr.
"I think most people are eccentrics in some way. Who's normal?" -- Aimee Mann.
"It's not like you feed ice caps in one side and songs come out the other." -- Feist, on whether her recent climate-change expedition to Greenland might appear in material.
Blunt talk
"Most of the time it just has to do with keeping my big fat mouth shut." -- Mika, on keeping his private life private.
"I heard about it and I kind of felt ambivalent, like, 'What is that, the place where they put musical dinosaurs?' Eventually I came around to the idea that it was flattering." -- Madonna on her Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
"They don't know what it is, really, until they're standing by the side of the stage with their ear defenders on watching their parents make (goofs) of themselves." -- Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, on the band members' children understanding what their dads do for a living.
"I know I get bad reviews, but everyone gets bad reviews. And I don't care because they're f------ wrong!" -- Avril Lavigne.
"L.A.'s a great place to visit, but the whole celebrity thing kind of got on my last nerve." -- Sheryl Crow, on her move to Nashville.
"My poor little brain. My poor little liver -- they're all on the verge of going on strike. (But) as repetitive as hedonism can be, it's still really compelling." -- 42-year-old Moby, on partying.
"I always said, 'Well, maybe we were just horny when we were writing it.' " -- The B52s' Fred Schneider, on the fact that the band's first studio album in 16 years, Funplex, is lyrically obsessed with sex.
"Apparently they were up in arms when they found out he was gay, but I knew he was. I mean, how could they not know that?" -- Suzie McNeil, who dueted with Clay Aiken on the Claymates.
"If I start wobbling, I'll just become a painter." -- 82-year-old singing legend Tony Bennett.
"My people wandered through the wilderness a long time ago. I'm done with nature. Give me a Four Seasons hotel." -- Jewish KISS bassist Gene Simmons.
"It's a ridiculous notion that worked when people lived to 35." -- Thrice- divorced producer David Foster, on being with one partner forever.
