Musician Quotes

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.