We'd be nowhere without our looks.

We'd be nowhere without our looks.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

I really don't care about my numbers.

God has his plan, and I'm just going along with it.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

I've been a Brewers fan since birth.

I try to avoid giving advice.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

I've had a couple of odd experiences - unexplainable anxiety that came my way through a belief in something... I mean, it sounds cryptic, but... anything for me that turns myself against myself, I stay away from.

I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert.

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.