Brian Molko Quotes

The rumba is the dance of love and lust.

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

I have a sexy side to me, but it's more of a fun sexy.

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

It's hard to make music that's sexy that's not cheesy.

Rock and roll reaches people because it's honest and doesn't shy away from the issues.

That's why people come to live music, right? To see something go wrong, something human, something vulnerable.

Really, what I'm trying to do is make soul music, but I don't even think of it as a genre. It's more of a feeling.

The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.