"We've been together four years and we've played some of the toughest opener slots. We've opened for Turbonegro. One of the ways to earn your stripes is to open for that band 'cause their audience is very territorial. They're very much like a 'we'll beat you up after school' kind of audience - which I love. Those shows were really exciting and we won that crowd over."

- Juliette Lewis (Juliette and The Licks) on being a support act - spinner.com

"Antiseen are what Turbonegro almost became with the Ass Cobra record. In fact, Turbonegro's last album steals from Antiseen like hell."

- Slobodan Burgher / only-in-it-for-the-music blog

"Once you've opened for Turbonegro and Social Distortion, you're pretty much ready for anything."

- Juliette Lewis (Juliette and The Licks) in response to weather or not she's 'ready to face Chris Cornell's fans'. - sfgate.com

"No. We're not big fans of Turbonegro. I like some tunes but the last album is really awful. If we're doing an album that crappy, please let me know."

- Sir Henry (Henry Fiat's Open Sore) in response to weather or not their fans will start a 'Turbojugend' like club. - terminal-boredom.com

"No. We would like to stay tomorrow but we have to fly to Sweden. But yeah, I would like to stay and see Turbo Negro, maybe I'll get the chance at another festival."

- Nic Arson's (The Hives) response when asked if they will hang around after their performance at Download Festival. 06/05-06/04

"The Turbos lately stopped here on their way to Bremen, Germany and left a tape that totally blew me away. In an era of emocore and sensitive shitpunk, Turbonegro display a unique refreshing explosion of ugliness in league with a twisted sense of humour."

- Anthony Martin / Boomba Records.

"The new Turbonegro record is possibly the most important European record ever!"

- Jello Biafra

"...funny, I don't remember ever saying that."

- Jello Biafra on "his quote" used to promote the Scandinavian Leather album. 04/03/03 Los Angeles, CA. USA

"Let other bands try to save rock's soul. Turbonegro is saving its ass."

- Blake Hennon / Daily Trojan - '03

"Turbojugend Hate The Kids!!"

- Dave Martin of the Gin Goblins on trendy turbo fans.

"...a full blown rock n' roll circus like you've never seen before."

- Maximum Rock-N-Roll.

"Radio Birdman meets Venom in an institution for sexually abused retards."

- Lars Allman / Sveriges Radio

"For Turbonegro fans the band is not just a band. It is almost a religion."

- MTV Europe

"Norway's greatest export since... um... OK, Norway's greatest export..."

- CMJ

"If Turbonegro's last album, 2003's Scandinavian Leather, saw them stage a guns-blazing assault on the rock mainstream, Party Animals finds these denim-clad Norwegian punks loading up the cannon"

- Amazon

"Spewing forth from deep within Norway's frozen north - though visually the product of some wholly unholy Village People / Judas Priest alliance - these self-styled deathpunk practitioners have certainly stamped down hard on the effects pedal marked 'glam' this time around."

- Manchester Evening News

"Turbonegro is the most evil band in the world, we had no choice"

- Mayhem on why they covered 'Are You Ready (For Some Darkness).

"If we don't break big with this album, it's because people are evil. If the Ramones or Guns n' Roses released this album, it would sell more than Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'."

- Hank on 'Party Animals' / Dagbladet 03/06/05

"Rock-n-roll shouldn't be a championship in earnasty and down-to-earthiness, but rather a display of magic and brilliance and power. It's 1% hard work and 99% hormones."

- Happy Tom

"A turbonegro is a large, well-equipped, armed black male in a fast car, out for vengeance. We are his prophets."

- Happy Tom

"It's more bubblegum, its more arena and we've taken the step from death punk to super rock."

- Happy Tom on how 'Party Animals' differs from previous releases.

"It's a bit like winning a potato sack race in the parking lot of the Olympics. It's not that special but still fun."

- Happy Tom on how it feels to win the 'Best Norwegian' eme award

"In a world were people like Hank and I can become rock stars, I think there's something really wrong out there."

- Happy Tom on success

"We're not a label band we're a rock 'n' roll band."

- Happy Tom on record labels

"...this album is our pathetic attempt to break into the republican market."

- Happy Tom on 'Party Animals'

"We got 11 hits, all of them beautifully negative switchblade serenades"

- Euroboy on 'Party Animals'

"Most rock-n-roll bands start as a riot but end up as a parody. We started up as a parody but ended up as a revolution"

- Happy Tom, 2005

Joanna: "Do you really like the word "motherfucker?" Because you say it a lot."

Hank: "It's just, they told us not to say four letter words, and that word has more letters in it. So it's just the way to swear without saying four letter words."

- Burning Angel interview.

"...we're taking darkness back from the goth scene... they've had it too long... they ruined it."

- Happy Tom in response to German interviewer's question of why denim and darkness?

"France is the Third Reich"

- Tom in response to questions surrounding the 'German shepard' imagery.

Knut: "Do you guys play 'Prince of the Rodeo?"
Fan: "No."
Knut: "You know why? It's because I'm too good."

- Euroboy talking to a fan about covering turbo material.

"I like dolphin. I teach my dolphin to talk but he only say four letter words like 'tits' and 'fuck'. But I tell him Don't Say Motherfucker, Motherfucker!"

- Hank introducing the song at a NY gig. New York, NY. USA '03.

"Last night you try to hit me in head with bottle, but I'm still here... Because I have Good Head!"

- Hank makes light of the 'bottle incident' in New York City. New York, NY. USA '03

"What's the world coming to when men in long black hair and long black beards can't bring an 18 inch dagger onto planes anymore,"

- Tom on airport arrest incident.

"Homosexuality is more than fucking assholes in the toilet."

- Hank von Helvete

"The high level of creativity is one of the main advantages of being fags."

- Happy Tom

"Turbo has never been a joke band. It's as simple as that. It's all a question of levels of tolerance. We like to play games, we like to play with words, we like to play with fear, instinct, style and stupidity. Provocation is boring! If it looks good and sounds good - then it is good! Deathpunk is a way to grandiose a genre that's to be performed in some kind of regular Joe context in T-shirts and Wranglers. Rock-n-roll shouldn't be some kind of championship in earnesty and down-to-earthness but rather adisplay of magic, brilliance and power. It's 1% hard work and 99% hormones. Other bands happening these days are fucking good at nudism, while we are PORNSTARS!"

- Happy Tom

"There are two kinds of rock: bad rock and TURBONEGRO!"

- Hank von Helvete at Oslo Spektrum. Oslo, Norway '03

Om den nye platen Babylon Forever:
"It makes Apocalypse Dudes sound like a record for depressives who stand around in a corner and get scared of girls. We've been testing it on focus groups made out of our target audience, homeless super-models, and they really like it."

- Happy Tom. NRK - Pyro '05

"After 30 years of being the world's wealthiest oil nation, people in Norway don't have traditional jobs anymore, so our new concept is actually a rather precise cross-section of the Norwegian modern work-force."

- Happy Tom

The line-up is now introduced as follows: "...a war-lord from the deep forests (Hank), a roller-skating gangsta (Chris), a totalitarian guitar hero (Euroboy), a professional best man at weddings (Rune), a disco sailor (Happy Tom) and a human dildo / Michael Hutchence-from-INXS-lookalike-wearing-a-German-helmet (Pål)."

- Happy Tom on the new look of the band. Kerrang - January, 2005

"...we're about as excited as the crowd, I think" says the vocalist and continues to elaborate on the band's massive success: "We create a show for them (the audience), a show that appeals to their need to follow something, be it a beat, an image, a feeling of camaraderie or whatever. We provide them with an outlet for their energy, and they provide us with a great deal of motivation to come back and do it all over again."

- Hank to News of Norway prior to entering the stage of Washington, D.C.'s Black Cat Club.

"We seem to be every metal bands favorite band, so it's fun to play and party at Download, even though we oppose downloading per se'."

- Happy Tom on playing Download Festival 2007.

"Turbonegro was born in the darkness on the edge of Oslo. (There were) many changes in personnel, many daily hassles. Always two years too fast for the trends. Broken mirrors. No fans. Many enemies. A philandering millionaire... an older fellow actually, giving the band large amounts of money for services rendered. Man versus matter, swimming underwater in a pool filled with black Vaseline. Gunboats in the horizon. The faint sounds of anti-aircraft shells in the distance. Suburbia in implosion."

- Happy Tom on Turbonergo.

"Applied for Nkr 400 000 from government funds to tour Japan, got Nkr 40 000 and went pubcrawling in Hamburg instead."

- Happy Tom. NRK - Pyro '05

"Turn the day into night and the day into night again and again and see a police man cry into his coffee while eating his doughnut in the dark and a clown cry in the dark when everybody has gone home and the circus is empty and the lonely boy out on the weekend trying to make it pay but returns back to the rooming house empty-handed followed by a black dog (metaphorically speaking, though) When... all of a sudden... a light in the end of the tunnel... RETOX."

- www.myspace.com/turbonegro

"We're back with a record that hits you in the head like brass-knuckles and a two-by-four!"

- Turbonegro on the album 'Retox'.

"If Retox was a color, it would be a darker shade of blinding white!"

- Turbonegro on the album 'Retox'.

"Retox is a nihilistic homo punk metal biker movie: Full of speed, power, humiliation and freedom!"

- Turbonegro on the album 'Retox'.

"Retox is rock music that's been up for 5 days without sleeping, able to see more than most people, but not seeing anything exactly clear."

- Turbonegro on the album 'Retox'.

"Retox is the sound of cold steel slashing through hot leather."

- Turbonegro on the album 'Retox'.

"We survived Grunge, Brit-Pop, House music, HIp-Hop, New Rock Revolution, Dance Rock, but maybe not New Rave...? People say we've been making the same record for ten years, that's not right. We've been making the same record for 4-5 years."

- Turbonegro on the album 'Retox'.

"This tends to happen a lot in the UK and Norway. A 14-year-old girl comes home late very drunk with a fetus in her stomach."

- Hank's introduction to 'Do You Dig Destruction' at Download Festival '07.