Gary Numan Quotes

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• 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.

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  Mean, Autism, Being Different

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• I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

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  Play, Funeral, Want

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• I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

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  Thinking, Creative, Unstoppable

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• Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory.

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  Memories, Time Heals, Heal

  Song: Zero Bars, Album: Tubeway Army

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• I'll be the in to your sane.

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  Depression, Life And Love, Mental Illness

  Song: A Question Of Faith

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• I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

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  Lying, Dark, Light

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• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

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  Bigs, Stills

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• When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

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  Facts, Kind, Accepting

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• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

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  Children, Home, School

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

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  Matter, No Matter What, Seems

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• 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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  Fans, Albums, Moments

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

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  Reality, Doors, Car

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• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

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  Jobs, Vanity, Hair

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• My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

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  Jobs, Dad, Wish

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• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

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  Wall, Disappointment, Dark

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• 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.

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  Dream, Struggle, Incentives

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• I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

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  United States, Problem, Illusion

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• I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

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  Song, Writing, Car

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 2, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Song, Writing, Successful

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• 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.

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  Running, People, Fans

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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

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  Attitude, Patriotic, People

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

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  Wall, Fantasy, Film

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• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

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  Crush, Mother, Dad

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

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  Blueprints, Wanted, Accidents

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• 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.

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  Two, Office, Hats

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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