'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin.… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
