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My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'
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I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
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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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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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When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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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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America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.
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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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You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.
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You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.
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I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.
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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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Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
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You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
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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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There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.
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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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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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As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.
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I will always be an Oasis.
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I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
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Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.