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I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
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I'll never have a stylist.
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America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.
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To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
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A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.
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Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
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Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.
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My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
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Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.
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I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
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I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
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America is incredibly professional and corporate.
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Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
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You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.
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College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
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Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
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When you get great actors like that turning up and not being paid, then they all come for the right reason. They all come to play and they all come to enjoy the characters.
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The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.
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Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
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The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here.
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I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.
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As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.
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Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.