"Alternative music doesn't exist."
— Jason Martin, commenting on the "alternative" tag being used to describe his own music, The Blue Star Journal, Fall 1996
"We were providing what most of the rest of the music industry wasn't providing for, the poor forgotten five per cent that enjoyed the really fucked up weird shit."
— Tex Perkins, Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll
"Strangely, to quote Tex Perkins, it was the five per cent of fucked up weird shit that began rising to the top."
— Narrator, ''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll
