Gary Numan Quotes

I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

I'll be the in to your sane.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.

Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock all the doors.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

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.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

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.

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

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.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

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

I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

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

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

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

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

I actually have two hats in my office; one says "network," one says "studio." Paul Lee over at ABC sent those over to us and I find it very useful.

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.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.