Gary Numan quote: "Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster."

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some rea...
GARY NUMAN

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have ...
GARY NUMAN

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '...
GARY NUMAN

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don...
GARY NUMAN

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle...
GARY NUMAN

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite d...
GARY NUMAN

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

I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don'...
GARY NUMAN

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early e...
GARY NUMAN

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my...
GARY NUMAN

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced...
GARY NUMAN

I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live...
GARY NUMAN

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was ...
GARY NUMAN

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cul...
GARY NUMAN

Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built ...
GARY NUMAN

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always b...
GARY NUMAN

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

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how th...
GARY NUMAN

I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
GARY NUMAN

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started ...
GARY NUMAN

I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my v...
GARY NUMAN

When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobod...
GARY NUMAN

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundarie...
GARY NUMAN

Time heals nothing, it merely re-arranges our memory.
GARY NUMAN

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the dow...
GARY NUMAN

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
GARY NUMAN

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, a...
GARY NUMAN

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I hon...
GARY NUMAN

I love lyrics by bands that have struggled, and they have gone through experiences, be it drugs, sex...
GARY NUMAN

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
GARY NUMAN

I think that when we are dead, we are worm food, I don't believe there is a greater place. I don't b...
GARY NUMAN

I honestly try really hard to talk to people, as though everyone's the same. No-ones better, no-one'...
GARY NUMAN

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked abo...
GARY NUMAN

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit r...
GARY NUMAN

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to becaus...
GARY NUMAN

The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wante...
GARY NUMAN

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could...
GARY NUMAN

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but dist...
GARY NUMAN

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war col...
GARY NUMAN

The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in ask...
GARY NUMAN

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN

If you didn't have a record company or a PR company that was really out there pushing you then you c...
GARY NUMAN

Yea things are good!
GARY NUMAN

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. Bu...
GARY NUMAN

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven,...
GARY NUMAN

It will be gone, because that's what the connector will be taking care of.
NUMAN BABIEH

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef...
GARY JENNINGS

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo...
GARY JOHNSON

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and und...
GARY COHN

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
GARY ALLAN

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's...
GARY GYGAX

Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig...
GARY ZUKAV

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le...
GARY ZUKAV

The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to conn...
GARY ZUKAV

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to ...
GARY ZUKAV

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a p...
GARY ZUKAV

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The o...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...
GARY ZUKAV

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters...
GARY ZUKAV

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make t...
GARY ZUKAV

The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for t...
GARY WEISS

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techni...
GARY BAUER

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger ab...
GARY LINEKER

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ...
GARY WRIGHT

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't thi...
GARY WRIGHT

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
GARY WRIGHT

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performance...
GARY WRIGHT

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
GARY WRIGHT

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
GARY WRIGHT

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them...
GARY WRIGHT

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
GARY WRIGHT

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
GARY WRIGHT

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ...
GARY WRIGHT

The more far-out artists, the better.
GARY WRIGHT

We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
GARY WRIGHT

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying ...
GARY WRIGHT

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'...
GARY WRIGHT

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
GARY WRIGHT

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa...
GARY WOLF

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
GARY WOLF

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist f...
GARY WOLF

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u...
GARY WOLF

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it...
GARY WOLF

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
GARY WOLF

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl th...
GARY WOLF

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macin...
GARY WOLF

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic...
GARY WOLF

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also m...
GARY WOLF

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ...
GARY WOLF

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to ...
GARY WOLF

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it...
GARY WOLF

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ...
GARY WOLF

If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ...
GARY WOLF

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
GARY WOLF

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and...
GARY WEISS

Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies a...
GARY WEISS

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journ...
GARY WEISS

At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at t...
GARY WEISS

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harri...
GARY WEISS

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger...
GARY WEISS

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout i...
GARY WEISS

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are ent...
GARY WEISS

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they ...
GARY WEISS

Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regula...
GARY WEISS

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased strivin...
GARY WEISS

I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer,...
GARY WEISS

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively prea...
GARY WEISS

The flip side of humiliation is pride.
GARY WEISS

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiqu...
GARY WEISS

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
GARY WEISS

In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as w...
GARY WEISS

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
GARY WEISS

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intell...
GARY WEISS

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when t...
GARY WEBB

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S....
GARY WEBB

Beaujolais is so underrated.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the s...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is ...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is g...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I love people, and the hustle.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. M...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers eve...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culi...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
GARY VALENTINE

The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follo...
GARY VALENTINE

Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if...
GARY VALENTINE

I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
GARY SPEED

I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
GARY SPEED

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
GARY SPEED

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti...
GARY SPEED

A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have be...
GARY SPEED

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a g...
GARY SPEED

You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
GARY SPEED

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the mo...
GARY SPEED

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's diff...
GARY SPEED

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games....
GARY SPEED

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
GARY SINISE

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
GARY SINISE

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
GARY SINISE

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
GARY SINISE

If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last t...
GARY SINISE

I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
GARY SINISE

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficul...
GARY SINISE

The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma...
GARY SINISE

I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm ...
GARY SINISE

I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
GARY SINISE

I study to learn, to be an educated person.
GARY SINISE

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie...
GARY SINISE

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their ga...
GARY SINISE

I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I kn...
GARY SINISE

My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go...
GARY SINISE

You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t...
GARY SINISE

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to ...
GARY SINISE

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine run...
GARY SINISE

Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
GARY SINISE

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
GARY SHTEYNGART

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, bu...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ...
GARY SHTEYNGART

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t...
GARY SHTEYNGART

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
GARY SHTEYNGART

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret...
GARY SHTEYNGART

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se...
GARY SHTEYNGART

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
GARY SHTEYNGART

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati...
GARY SHTEYNGART

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph...
GARY SHTEYNGART

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART

When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART

In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN

You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
GARY SHERMAN

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ...
GARY SHERMAN

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t...
GARY SHERMAN

Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu...
GARY SHERMAN

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

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