Chris Lowe

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do you know who I am?', but sometimes I'm with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, 'Oh, please don't shame me!'.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.”

“We'd be nowhere without our looks.”

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