Limahl Quotes

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

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.

I love '80s beats; everyone does.

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

I love '80s and '90s music.

You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.

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

I was a huge Rick Astley and Bananarama fan.

I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school. It's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'

I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.