Quotes from Gary Kemp

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.