A lot of people learn as they go along, and change their ways, realising they have just been stupid and ignorant.
Brian Eno's wife was putting on concerts in Russia. He has a very intellectual way to writing music, whereas we tend to be a bit more conventional in that we write.
Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.
Classical music in a nightclub is really good because you can hear it really loud.
Coming from Blackpool, you take music from a different point of view than some people. For me, music has always been about having a good time and partying. I'm sure that's because I come from Blackpool, where that's the purpose of music.
Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.
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.
I didn't want to do a chill-out compilation because I'm not really a chill-out type of person. I think mine's probably the first one of the series that's not really a chill-out.
I don't DJ really. I just do the odd Valentines Day party for friends. It takes so much time, getting the records together. I get rusty on the mixing as well.
I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.
I haven't really got a regular club at the moment.
I like the lyrics to Violence. I think the lyrics to Being boring are really elegiac. The lyrics to West End girls are really good.
I never expected anything. I was training as an architect, so I hadn't really considered a change of career. I never really thought we'd have any success at all.
I never met him, but Elton told us that we would have really liked him.
I tend to like emotional songs. I'm not a huge Queen fan at all, but I've always loved The Show Must Go On.
I think Eminem's made some great records, but is he homophobic? I don't know. He's putting on a persona, isn't he? Has he stopped being homophobic?
I think it would have been really good if Tony Blair had resigned before the election.
I used to know where I was going Fridays and Saturdays in the old days, but not now.
I was even in My Guy once: I was the Cover Guy. My proudest moment.
I'd learnt the piano at school. We saved up some money to book some time in this tiny little recording studio in Camden, we had an afternoon there and recorded three songs.
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
In the '80s, there were only two drum boxes around, which is one of the reasons music from that era sounds like it does. The keyboards are the same, and the sequencers were at very early stages.
It's the first compilation of other people's records we've ever done, and the last, I think. I don't think we will be making a habit of it.
Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.
Once you don't believe about the war, then you can't believe about anything else. If you don't trust them, you can't trust them about anything.
Robbie Williams's entire back catalogue is about him.
Some of the glitchy stuff I have to be in just the right mood to listen to.
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
The balloon would reach up to his bedroom window, so when he opened the curtains in the morning, that was what he'd see.
The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.
The faster you spin it, the higher the note.
The one issue of the election is ID cards. ID cards alone make it impossible for anyone to vote New Labour, I think.
There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in.
There was a John Travolta look-a-like who used to lead the dancing when all the Saturday Night Fever records came on.
There's been compilations released almost every week of '90s stuff.
There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.
Today, you have to go to all these red carpet parties and be nice to the paparazzi. They say, I've every right to be on your doorstep. I just don't follow that argument at all.
Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.
We chose to work with Bruce Weber for the video for Being boring. The whole idea for the video is a party scene, and the shooting of the video was like a real party.
We could stop being in our videos. I'm bored by us.
We had loads of problems with getting the key right.
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.
We'd be nowhere without our looks.
We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
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.
When you release a record that is your favourite one and it performs the least well, it's kind of unnerving.
When you're playing to strangers they come up and say what you plying this crap for? I can't be bothered with all of that.
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.
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