#bout

I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#admire #always #been #better #better now

I shouldn't have to play live just because I've made a record. I get lots of letters 'cos I'm not into the street credibility thing. I don't like that whole thing at all, I've always thought of it as a very glamorous business, the whole thing about putting on a show. All the anti-hero punk thing, it went against everything I've ever wanted to do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#against #always #because #business #cos

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time. ↗

— Gary Numan

#airplane #business #buy #charge #colours

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #been #before #bowie #chased

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

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive. ↗

— Gary Numan

#aggressive #became #came #early #ever

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#again #establish #everybody #fashion #look

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#actor #audience #between #exchange #feeling

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#arrive #challenge #change #developed #development

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#deeply #feel #integrity #possible #sacrifice