Quotes from Chris Lowe

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

We'd be nowhere without our looks.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

There is nothing quite like opening an unfamiliar book that smells like a new memory about to happen.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do you know who I am?', but sometimes I'm with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, 'Oh, please don't shame me!'.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.