Good Food Rocks: 25 Best Musician Quotes From The Road

Food Republic Editorial Director Richard Martin, Contributing Editor Matt Rodbard and myself answer the question "is food the new rock?" on a regular basis. We all have solid backgrounds in the music industry, which means — aside from playing great tunes at FR Headquarters — we know bands and DJs eat well all over the world...unless they don't, which also makes for great quotes. Here are 25 that made our jaws drop, stomachs growl and, occasionally, heads shake.

What did you eat growing up while growing up in Morocco?

Lions, tigers, giraffe neck. – French Montana

Adam: I worry about bands on the road sometimes, too. I worry about us on the road.

Casey: Me and Noah started eating lemons on the road, straight-up lemons.

Like, to prevent scurvy?

Noah: Pretty much.

Casey: It's amazing how much better you feel after you eat a lemon on the road after eating fast food for five days straight. -Ambassadors

Paul: When I was 8, I went to a restaurant in Bermuda with my family and had whole wheat pasta with shrimp and I remembered it very vividly because whole wheat pasta has such an incredible taste, basically I ended up stealing the recipe. I cooked this the night I lost my virginity, the first time I kissed another girlfriend and the first time I kissed the girlfriend after that. It was our first official date and I thought to myself "say..." It really is my best work. - Savoir Adore

I'm kind of a working class person, just meat and potatoes, so I'm like, "I can't eat this stuff!" And I so I go to the next food truck, and it was like a pulled pork sandwich, and I was like, "Sweet, I can totally eat that." But then it had like a garlic mustard, fucking caramel aioli something, and I go, "Well, I can't eat that too." So I go to the next one and it's cheeseburgers...and they come in a slide whistle. What the hell... -Petey Dammit, Thee Oh Sees

Thank you for telling the truth. They are. I've traveled the world and I can't find any better gummy bears than Haribo ones. – Boys Noize

Besides eating eggs every day I'm just a dairy freak really. Drink lots of milk, eat lots of yogurt and cheese — a LOT of dairy. A lot. So I always get really bad phlegm. I'll be trying to talk over the mike and I'm all gross. – Rusko

Taste-wise, they are actually terrible together. It came from us needing energy when we're DJing. We always had them on the rider — bananas for potassium to keep us going, and champagne for keeping your head bubbly. It's the perfect combination. You can't have an apple in a club — it'll get slippery and gross — but a banana is perfect because you open it up and it's all fresh inside. It's impossible to eat a sandwich in a club because it would get so dirty. Clubs are the grimiest places on earth. – Dada Life

I did grow up working in my father's clothing store when I was a kid, and I even had my own little business every summer. His store was near a tourist spot in Bergen, and I would set up a little shop outside his, where I would sell sandwiches and baguettes with Norwegian salmon and shrimp, which I would buy from a local fish store. I would sit there everyday as a 12– or 13-year-old and run my own little business. – Sondre Lerche

Sarah: We always ask for a shitload of smoothies. We drink a lot of smoothies. There's five or six of us that tour and we ask for 10 for each show. Then we do smoothie chugging contests.

Josh: Sarah wins every time. And she drinks it up her nose, too. – Phantogram

P-Thugg: People are definitely not allowed to eat, fart, drink, smoke or breathe in my car. And you can't speak to me until you're spoken to. - Chromeo

Quinn: Candy salad is a dish my fiancée came up with as a little kid. She would take all the gummy, sour, fruity and colorful candy, or cut up chocolate candies, and mix them together in a bowl. I'm more of a candy guy. - Suckers

Yes, it was weird and cool. Cool because one of your songs is being played in a restaurant! Weird because it was a DJ in a seafood restaurant and he said: "The bass player of this next band is enjoying his meal with us tonight! Here's 'I Can Tell' by White DENIM!!!!!" – White Denim

I worked there for two weeks and I saved up enough money to buy a TV and quit. That was always the plan. It smelled like farts in there. It was fucking disgusting and they made me put my hair in a ponytail. So, fuck Subway. – Wavves

I think the cool answer is they both require a lot of control, thought and focus. But to be honest, they are about as similar as working construction and teaching kindergarten. Two other jobs I have had in my life so far. – FaltyDL

My mom and I used to go online and download recipes and compiled a recipe book, categorized and all. We would experiment almost every night. There was an Indian dish we did involving breaded and fried eggplant with a lot of seasoning on it that I remember being particularly amazing. I also remember we got the recipe for McDonald's sweet and sour sauce and used it on sweet and sour chicken because I loved the sauce so much. – Wolfgang Gartner

I would do Ghostface Killah... and Raekwon, because Ghostface is just crazy. I would have Joe Biden because Obama is the cool choice, but Joe Biden is the guy who just says whatever the fuck he wants whenever he wants and nobody cares because he is the Vice President. I would also have Joan Rivers because she's crazy and old and seen every pop culture moment for the last 250 years. – Mick Boogie

My own rendition of the Peruvian ritual shot. Dip a lime one side in brown sugar, one side in coffee grinds then take a shot of bourbon and chase with the dipped bliss. – Drop The Lime

We have a record label called "Delicacies," with all the tracks named after weird foods. Our manager, who is a bit of an amateur chef, decided it would be a good idea to cook up meal for the release of our single, "Gizzard." It was a French dish of fried gizzards in a sort of lentil salad. Not sure if it was the best meal ever cooked for us, but certainly one of the most interesting. You can read all about it here. – Simian Mobile Disco

For tours when I'm touring with hip-hop acts or bands, it's a necessity that boxer briefs and socks are on the rider at every tour stop. There is a good reason behind it. There's kind of an unwritten rule that nobody on the bus or tour van pack boxers or underwear or socks of any kind. They stink up the vehicle and clothes and make touring miserable. A brand-new pack of undies and socks is an amazing feeling while on the road. It's the little things.... – DJ Sku

Definitely watching my mom make stuffed salmon. That BLEW my mind, I remember being young and being like "What in the hell? When you say we're eating fish we're actually EATING A FISH?" Ahhh childhood. – DJ Skeet Skeet

If a city has live octopus, I'm usually down with. In Tokyo you might get a glass with a chopstick in it and a small octopus might wrap itself around the stick and you eat the whole thing like a lollipop. It's very clean and very Japanese. In Seoul, the octopus are generally bigger and USUALLY cut up and served on a plate with its pieces looking like worms, crawling and sticking all over. There's a video of me going straight to the source, raw and uncut. – Tittsworth

I don't watch TV but sometimes I see Guy Fieri's shows on the plane and I find his selection of shirts interesting. – A-trak

Kelis is an amazing cook. She actually went to culinary school and can seriously throw down. -DJ M.O.S.

Cheese and crackers is good. You can put them on the turntables and watch them go around. – Mayer Hawthorne

My grandmother used to make mini hamburgers with me. We would cut out white bread with a milk cap for the buns. I don't know why but it made a hamburger taste so much better in bite size. – Flosstradamus