65 Quotes by Kate Pierson

I don't think we were shy so much as we were terrified. Especially when we did 'Saturday Night Live' on live TV. We looked really animatronic because we were scared, but it came off as being this alien sort of attitude, which served us well, because people were like, 'Whoa, this is so weird.'

There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.

When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I think more people feel like they're outside of the mainstream these days - there's more people who are doing their own thing, feeling that it's not bad to be a weirdo and respecting other people's differences. And all that kind of goes into the big ol' B-52 philosophy.

I call it the LGBT Q and A community 'cause there's so many questions and answers.

All our friends - so many friends are gay or lesbian and transgender. We're just in that world. We all went through the devastating time of the AIDS crisis, and I think that galvanized us to be more activists - AIDS activists.

I love Atlanta. I feel really at home in Atlanta. We spent a lot of time there. But Athens is like home to me.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.