CHRIS LOWE

We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

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.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

We'd be nowhere without our looks.

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

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

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.

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

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

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.