Marc Almond Quotes

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

I'm always aware of mortality.

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.