Olly Alexander Quotes

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

I like hot people being hot. How else do you explain my high school infatuation with Ricky Martin in all his shirtless glory?

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

When I wrote 'The Shadow Thief,' I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute horror to live with at that stage. I had a big fight with my mum because I wanted her to change the windows so Peter Pan could visit me.

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.