Neil Tennant Quotes

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

No two people have the same reality

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Fashion is a reflection of the time.

If the Beastie Boys and the Beach Boys and Pet Shop Boys can stay boys, so can we.

I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.

Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet.

I like Das Racist, and so should you.

I have never met anybody who likes 'The Detectorists' that I don't like.

Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.

What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

There is no person without a world.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.