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Gary Numan

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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.


— Gary Numan


#attitude #britain #considered #down-to-earth #fiercely

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.


— Gary Numan


#away #dramatic #dreams #i #impossible

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.


— Gary Numan


#been #difficult #get #got #i

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.


— Gary Numan


#carefully #correctly #how #i #i always

Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.


— Gary Numan


#annoys #chip #fans #got #huge

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.


— Gary Numan


#away #contradictions #difficult #disaster #going

The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.


— Gary Numan


#agreeing #any #anyone #asking #assure

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.


— Gary Numan


#because #cult #doing #i #i am

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.


— Gary Numan


#across #blueprint #i #stumbled #them

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.


— Gary Numan


#band #became #fan #go #had






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These races were held at Silverstone over the next five days and varied in racing styles ultimately culminating in one final Grand Prix race on Sunday 12 November. " He explained that he'd "never been abused in my local high street" and has "made no firm decision about leaving the UK" but thugs are helping make such a decision pointing out that the rioting "makes us look like a country of ignorant savages beating up people already injured pretending to help while stealing their things hitting old men killing them. Personality and style
Numan "got really hung up with this whole thing of not feeling being cold about everything not letting emotions get to you or presenting a front of not feeling".

His use of themes from science fiction and his combination of aggressive punk energy with electronics have been widely imitated. Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer composer and musician most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (as Tubeway Army) and "Cars".

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