#sin

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby. ↗

— Gary Numan

#after #airline #any #baby #blood

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't. ↗

— Gary Numan

#could #grin #i #just #make

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'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times. ↗

— Gary Numan

#business #distinctive #glad #good #got

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since. ↗

— Gary Numan

#because #been #before #charts #desperately

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#country #economically #educated #educational #feel

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#flicker #his #history #horror #indignation

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#first #got #i #into #music

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#changes #chord #chords #computer #haven

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#doing #exactly #finn #friends #his