Chris Lowe's Quotes

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

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.

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

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We'd be nowhere without our looks.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.