Neil Tennant Quotes

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.

Not everybody is either gay or straight.

It's important to not have my sexuality define me.

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

If some heterosexual wants to be gay, so what? Let him go. It's less competition for the heterosexual single guys.

Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.