Gary Numan Quotes

• "And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless."
• "Everyone knows who you are and expects you to have money but you haven't. I went through about ten years of trying to pretend I was really eccentric, and that's why I had sh**ty car that broke down all the time, and that's why I didn't have any proper furniture."
• "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."
• "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 honestly try really hard to talk to people, as though everyone's the same. No-ones better, no-one's worse, I don't think one job is better than another. I really try to look at the world and everyone in it evenly. I seem to be widely misunderstood often."
• "I love lyrics by bands that have struggled, and they have gone through experiences, be it drugs, sex, whatever it might be, but have gone through experiences that I perhaps haven't, and I find that struggle with demons fascinating, I love all that stuff. I don't often see that in these reality TV people."
• "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."
• "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."
• "There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level."
• "When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts."
• "Yea things are good!"