'We write the songs, we sing the songs, we play the instruments, and if that's not credible enough then f**k off!'
'Say Busted are so successful that we can retire when we're 25 - I mean, what is there left to do, except shag? And thats what you do if you want a child.'
'You gotta stop calling me a surfer kid and you gotta stop playing with my beanie.'
'Leave my beanie.'
'Why he playing with my beanie for?'
'14 pop.. nnnnuggets!!'
[about Kylie Minogue] 'So small you can put her in your pocket!'
'If Matt had two sons and he called one Jack, he should call the other one Michael. Then, if he was calling them, he could shout, 'Michael, Jack..son..'
[about what his own planet would be like] 'The streets would be made of food so you could eat anything, anywhere - mm!'
'Even if I was chatted up by a boy, I wouldn't even notice because I'm a bit thick like that.'
'Something I regret didding in my past.. I mean doing!'
'We get on with everyone who works for us.. with us.. yeah, that's the right way to say it!'
'We started living the student life, just without the student part.'
'The world is our inspiration, Crumpets.'
'As stupid as our songs are, we do try to get at least an element of intelligence in somewhere!'
'I've got a mum and a dad, but not everyone does. You might just not know the other side - I've never eaten red cabbage but everyone says it's really nice.'
'PANCAKES!'
[about the band's old name, Buster] 'I was the biggest hater of that name.. I think it sucked more than anything has ever sucked before.'
'I'm still James from the roots, me. I'm still Jimmy from the block!'
'I'd like to be Charlie, cause I'd like to see what it's like to be so tall..'
'There's my guitar. My Voodoo D. Vooooodooooo!'
'Cupboards smell after a while.'
[describing Busted in 5 words] 'Not-taking-ourselves-too-seriously.'
'I kind of, er.. once I get a pair of trainers, I wear them forever and then I never wear them again, so.. these are gonna be on my feet for ages..'
'You like this top? Aww, well.. I would say you could have it but I like it too!'
'I said in an interview once that I like jaffa cakes - now I get them everywhere I go. It's a great way of getting what you want - say it in an interview. Just so everyone knows, I love fifty pound notes..'
'We dont stand there and go, 'One, two, three.. jump!' ..you dont think we do, do you?'
'Once, I thought a slug was a wine gum and I ate it.'
'I like to be in charge of my own bottom!'
'You know you're in love cause you start laughing at things that aren't funny.'
'I think everyone wees in the shower.'
'I just ate four bananas, man! Too much potassium..'
'There's something odd about having 10 year olds doing ballet moves and some kid dressed like Shakira belly dancing in front of you whilst you're trying to perform..'
'Once we were in Hyde Park and I saw Daniel Beddingfield walk into one of them portaloos, and I went in and started singing his song while having a wee, and this voice shouted out, 'Who's that singing my song?''
'If Geri had told me I couldn't sing, I'd just have said 'You can't either'.'
'We didn't want a parental advisory sticker on A Present For Everyone. If there's a word we didn't want anyone to hear, there's a boink noise.'
'No tour bus is complete without Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.. Willy Wonka!'
'WHO ATE THE JELLY BABIES?!?!!? Wine gums.. always a reserve option.'
'THE ICE RINK THE ICE RINK HOW WE GUNNA GET THERE?!?'
'Liar. Liar. Liar.'
[in funny voice] 'Where do we go from here?!'
'There's a naked boyband in there.'
'I like things that totally preoccupy your mind. Like ping pong.'
'If we are sucessful in the states i would like to live there on a beach. And if we aren't sucessful there, I would.. like to live there on a beach!'
'You become a badger of a fox.'
'I feel a bit atis, at, apprehensive.. I just couldn't find my word there.'
'I once wore a carrier bag on my head when it was raining.'
'Actually, you've only heard a couple of songs, but what I'm saying is.. hurblelebuh.'
'I was having a farting contest with myself.'
'When I fart it's expected to smell of roses.'
[girl tells James she likes his shoes] 'Really?! I have red and yellow ones too!'
'My bag is on fire. Is that supposed to happen?'
'If you're going to break a guitar, break a guitar spectacularly.'
'The distinction which I think makes us a real band rather than a manufactured band is that we were a band before we had a record deal; we went round all the record labels playing songs we'd written ourselves, acoustically, and in the end we went for a record deal which wasn't offering the most money but one which was offering us the best opportunity to develop as artists and as songwriters. I'm not sure that on any of those counts there's a more credible way to having gone about any of it.'
'Pubic Cake - what a great name for a band. NO! What a great name for a single! It's our comeback single!'
'Pubic Cake is the title of our American album.'
'Send me Jaffa Cakes in a tube.. but don't send me a cake containing pubes..'
'I smell the pubes, they're in the pan cooking, and you thought I wasn't looking..'
[singing] 'I'm wiping my bum, I'm wiping my bum, I'm wiping my bum..'
'Um, go RIGHT, right now! No wait, LEFT! [pause] You know where we're going, right?'
'WOAH look at that, we have CLEAN dishes! CLEAN DISHES!'
'Fire up the ovens, muffin man!'

"something i regret didding in my past... i mean doing!"
"we started living the student life, just without the student part"
"she's so small you can put her in your pocket!"
"two words, oh dear!"
"dario!"
"not if you wash!"
"this is matt and charlie's nice little love nest for the night!"
"ehh, nice room!"
"actually, you've only heard a couple of songs, but what i'm saying is.. hurblelebuh"
"you gotta stop calling me surfer kid, and you've gotta stop playing with my beanie!"
"no i wanna keep it like this - leave my beanie!"
"why's he playing with my beanie for?"
"we write the songs, we sing the songs, we play the instruments, and if that's not credible enough, then fuck off"
"14.. pop.. NUGGETS!"
"you can get more emotion into back yard *on about year 3000*"
"here, we were using the gift of irony. because obviously if the world was underwater, everything would be different, and at the same time i did like the idea of the world being identical, except underwater!"
"yes, seriously. as stupid as our songs are, we do try to get at least an element of intelligence in somewhere!"
"listen. we knew this when we wrote it. it's not as if we didn't think about it. i would have thought, people, would GET THE MESSAGE. what we were trying to do. it's not literal! 'walking on sunshine' isn't actually about walking on sunshine, because YOU'D DIE! you can't even get remotely near the sunshine. it's a figure of speech. if you're going to raise that issue, there's a hell of a lot more that you have to raise just..."
"i had my tenth birthday. the big 1-0. it was a difficult age, and that was the year i got heavily into music."
"i've got a mum and a dad but not everyone does. you might just not know the other side - i've never eaten red cabbage but everyone says it's really nice."
"say busted are so successful that we can retire when we're 25 - i mean, what is there left to do, except shag? and thats what you do if you want a child."
"i was having a farting contest with myself"
"when i fart, people expect it to smell of roses!"
"i'm allowed to fart on the tour bus, okay?"
"yeah, i love makeup"