Andrew W.K. Quotes
I always wanted to be cheered up. I felt like that feeling of the first day of summer or when a girl would agree to go on a date or you found a $20 bill - that undeniable rush of excitement - I wanted to make a soundtrack of music for that kind of moment.
W.K., Andrew. Interview. Pitchfork, Condé Nast, 2002.
Although a member of the same party, Thatcher was his implacable enemy. When he had been the sitting Conservative Prime Minister, Thatcher hade led a successful movement to have him unseated by the party. In the British system even though the voters had elected a party with its candidate for Prime Minister, the winning party can change the Prime Minister at any time. Although this is not usual, this is what happened to Heath. After serving three terms, Thatcher herself was unseated by a Conservative Party faction led by John Major, and Heath expressed his emotion at the news. Heath had so despised Thatcher that he refused to serve in any way in her cabinet, unusual in the British system where former Prime Ministers often serve in Parliament and later may serve as cabinet ministers to another prime minister.
Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier is an American rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. Raised in Michigan, Wilkes-Krier began his musical career in the mid-1990s performing in a number of local bands before eventually moving to New York, where he produced his first recordings under the Andrew W.K. moniker.
