Jon Hopkins Quotes

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.

My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.

My heart is always listening to the music I grew up with from the '70s and '80s to early '90s.

I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.

I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.

Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

Madonna was my favorite when I was a little kid.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'

We used to have quirky weird bands that made dance music like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode and I think people have still got an appetite for that type of music-melody and darkness.

I love '80s and '90s music.

I know the words to almost every '80s song.