Quotes by Gary Numan

Gary Numan

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I’m 53 now and won’t be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry – another reason why I’m thinking about living in California.

Artist

Thinking

Writing

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.

Clubs

Gay

Punk

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it’s Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it’s a nice feeling, I’m very grateful for it. It’s very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

Careers

Grateful

Nice

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

Car

Doors

Reality

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.

Hats

Office

Two

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write ‘Cars,’ but if I am honest it could have been even less than that – and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

Song

Successful

Writing

I became famous so quickly and so young – it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

Immature

Stupid

Teeth

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

Fantasy

Film

Wall

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.

Believe

Nuts

Should Have

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.

Albums

Fans

Moments

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Accepting

Accidents

Albums

Artist

Attitude

Autism

Baby

Being Different

Believe

Bigs

Blueprints

Brother

Car

Careers

Childhood

Children

Clubs

Cousin

Creative

Crush

Cult

Dad

Dark

Depression

Different

Disappointment

Doors

Dream

Eye

Facts

Fans

Fantasy

Fed Up

Feds

Film

Funeral

Gay

Grateful

Hair

Hands

Hats

Heal

Home

Hopeless

Ideas

Illusion

Immature

Incentives

Jobs

Kids

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Quotes by Gary Numan

Gary Numan

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.

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it’s Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it’s a nice feeling, I’m very grateful for it. It’s very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

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

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.

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write ‘Cars,’ but if I am honest it could have been even less than that – and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

I became famous so quickly and so young – it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

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

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 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.

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