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Simon on himself:
"People think it takes someone special or different to be a pop star. But it doesn't. I'm absolutely normal. It all feels like a big bluff sometimes!" - 1984
"Eastern jangles, flashes, jungles, all purple, gold and red, a crimson flag to herald the dawn and from the centre of the liquid flame steps the man!" - Simon giving a self-portrait
"I don't like the way I look. There are bits of me - of my body - I don't like!" - Simon's answer to the question "What's the worst thing about being Simon Le Bon?", 1990
"It's a recipe for disaster to take yourself seriously!" - 1993
"I've got that animal instinct you rely on when you're too stupid to think things out, which I have always been!" - 1997
"I wouldn't clone myself if I could, the world ain't big enough for the both of me!" - 1997
"I suppose I am a tart!" - From 50 facts at dd.com, 1998
"I like to think of myself as a consummate unprofessional!" - From 50 facts at dd.com, 1998
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Simon on his ego:
"I know I'm an egoist, but my ego is a motor not a monster!" - 1981
"I decided when I was young that I wanted lots of attention. Being a show-off got me involved in drama and the pop group business and that then got me nice girlfriends. So, I thought, I'll stick at it!" - 1983
"Money doesn't motivate me as much as pride and ego!" - 1984
"...and my ego remains as equally inflated as it ever has been..." - The Duran Duran Hotline, 1998
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Simon on women/Yasmin:
"I've always been intrigued by girls. They're an endless source of mystery to me!" - 1984
"It might sound mad, but I'm really not that interested in women who throw themselves at you. The attraction's in the chase and the challenge!" - 1984
"I can't bear stupid girls - I find them a real turn off. I don't like ladies who can't stand on their own two feet either. Basically I like them to have a brain and a bit of independence!" - 1984
"Just don't take her to a restaurant. That way she won't throw food at you. Take her to a nightclub instead and point her in the direction of someone new!" - Simon on how to break up with a girl and let her down easy, 1987
"A slut is a girl who will sleep with anyone, and a bitch is a girl who will sleep with anyone but you!" - 1990
"It was immediate and compulsory. I had to have her. I had to get married to her. I had a feeling it was going to happen when I saw her photograph. She had this smile and I looked at it and thought, 'I could wake up with that smile for the rest of my life'!" - Simon on seeing Yasmin for the first time, 1990
"Why rock stars marry models? Because they can! It's the same answer to the question: 'Why do dogs lick their balls?' Because they can!" - MTV Europe, 1993
"She's got nicer everything - that's why I married her!" - Simon when asked what he thinks when people say that Yasmin is more famous and has nicer legs than he has, 1998
"If I'm honest, I did it for the birds. And being able to wear lipstick on stage!" - 1998
"I spent Christmas with my girlfriend Clare in Canada and then I went straight to Sri Lanka and met my other girlfriend, Anita. I couldn't make my mind up. Plus, there was a part of me that went 'Why the hell not?'!" - 1998
"I met Yasmin around then. I'd seen a photograph of her, invited her to see Indiana Jones and went out with her for two weeks. Why two weeks? She wouldn't fuck me. I couldn't figure for the life of me why not!" - 1998
"There's nothing wrong with seeing what's on the menu!" - dd.com, 1998
"I'm very lucky to have got married to a girl who earns because it's kept me in the lifestyle I have been accustomed to!" - 1998
"I'm down to my wife's last million!" - 2000
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Simon on sex:
"I remember hanging around one night outside the Playboy Club in London with a mate of mine, and for some reason we really did believe we'd find a rich widow who'd fancy one of us and try to take us home. Then I was informed that there was an Arab gentleman interested in my body, and I thought, no way!"
"There's nothing wrong with one night stands. I know that is very much a man's point of view. But with this sort of job it is sometimes the only relationship you can have. You can't go through the year without any kind of sexual or loving relationship at all, so you have to find happiness in things like that!"
"Sex has always been part of my work!" - 1985
"We used to say: 'Always wear your best underwear because you never know when you're gonna need it!', but lately I kind of changed my idea. I think maybe it's better if you just don't wear any underwear, just in case when you do come, you come undone" - Simon introducing "Come Undone", South Africa 1993
"I hope you're feeling horny tonight, 'cause I am!" - Z-100 show, 1993
"I believe the word 'fuck' means love. It's being misused and it's a good word. We should say it a lot!" - Playgirl, 1995
"I was never particular great with girls at school, so when the band took off I shagged myself senseless!" - 1997
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Simon on the time before he joined Duran Duran:
"I think I'm happier now than I've ever been in my life. I had a happy childhood. I wouldn't mind going through it again, but I'd rather be a child in the future. I don't have that much nostalgia about my own childhood!" - 1981
"I started singing very young. I had a really good voice when I was very young - very high and clear. I joined church choir and my mother recorded me singing all these songs when I was about twelve. When she plays it now, it makes me cringe to hear myself!" - 1981
"I was a porter at a hospital in Harrow. It had a profound effect on me. I saw severed limbs, dead bodies, people badly hurt. But there was a good atmosphere. It was the will to survive. The tenacity of people... took me by surprise!" - 1981
"I am NOT working class!" - 1984
"The first time I became fashion conscious was when I realized I was the only boy left at my school still wearing short trousers!" - 1984
"I get a great deal of pleasure proving my headmaster wrong when he said I was crazy to consider going on stage, and I should have become a prison warder. I get a real laugh knowing that he sees me on TV!" - 1984
"My voice didn't break until I was 16. I worried that girls would think I wasn't well endowed!" - 1984
"By the time I joined, we were making demos and playing live shows. Before that I was in a punk band - totally, out-and-out suburban punk. Punk in England was always suburban kids coming into town and being punks and not knowing how to get home at 4 o'clock in the morning, That's what punk was all about when it first started!" - 1987
"In the days of punk, all we thought we had to do was say 'Fuck the Queen' and go out and have a good time, but we soon learned that you have to make a bit more of a statement than that. But it made the English newspapers nonetheless. So I think that sort of blows any chances of knighthood!" - Simon when asked if he expects to become Sir Simon, 1997
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Simon on being in Duran Duran:
"We enjoy being schizophrenic!"
"When I first joined the band we all looked like a bunch of weirdoes!"
"The one thing Duran Duran have in common with Spandau Ballet is the urge to look good at all times!"
"If we are veterans, then the Rolling Stones ought to be bloody zombies!" - 1990
"I still think that "Violence Of Summer" is a great song. I mean, we really did get the girls in the blonde wigs before anybody else did - thank you very much!" - Extraordinary World, 1993
"We're just taking the piss out of ourselves, the way we are as a band and the way the industry is. I think there's more humour in the song than anything else!" - Simon about "Too Much Information", 1993
"I don't like serious bands, they bore the pants off me!" - 1993
"We were like a bunch of kids on the last day of school. Suddenly there was a party being thrown for us and it went on for five years. We enjoyed it, it was there, we earned a lot and we had a lot of fun!" - 1994
"I found a Japanese fan in my wardrobe once. As I opened the door, she came out and said: 'Oh, not John Taylor's room'" - RuPaul Show, 1997
"Making the first album, I drank too much beer and ate too much Shepherds Pie. They always wanted to do vocals after dinner. What a stupid idea! You can't sing after eating!" - 1998
"We were partying at all points. You get used to being an alcoholic, really. Part of being an alcoholic is getting used to it!" - 1998
"A decent pair of shades is essential in this business!" - dd.com, 1998
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Simon on ambition, success & survival:
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops!" - 1981
"You know, I was once quoted as saying we'll be the band to dance to when they drop the bomb. But I've got a very strong sense of the survival of the species. I believe in genetics and breeding, very much. That's a very important part of evolution. But I'm not a snob. Ask anybody... well, anybody who matters!" - 1984
"Actually, I've given up looking for true art. I'm happy now doing what I'm doing. And I believe in it... if I were rich and I wasn't doing this, I'd pay to do it! Just to get up on stage and having all those people looking at you! And some even listening to you!" - 1981
"Basically speaking if you've got something in mind you shouldn't give up until you get it. Otherwise you don't stand a chance. That's how Duran Duran think and it's true of anything, not just music!" - 1981
"The more success you achieve, the more hands come out either trying to drag you sideways into some unreal world of drugs or perversion, or there's lots of hands trying to drag you back down to the ground, back down to their level because they don't like to see you up there!" - 1982
"What kills a group isn't the pressures, or the booze or the girls. Boredom is the killer and as long as we're not bored, we shall be all right!" - 1984
"Survival is part of our ambition. To survive in this business is a great feat. But it's no good making a great business success if it destroys you as an individual!"
"If you've built your success on a tissue ladder of lies and deceptions and images, then it's particularly easy to be pulled down, but if you're honest... you can stand on the ground that you've created with your honesty!"
"The hardest task in music industry is not, as many people believe, sitting in the back of a limousine with a fabulous groupie trying to peel your velvet trousers off with one hand while rolling a joint with the other. It is in fact getting that first recognition for your work - I know, 'cause I've tried both!" - Simon when giving an award for best newcomer of the year, 1991
"When you have a teenage girl following, then you last just as long as your poster lasts on the back of the wardrobe door. As soon as that gets a bit peeled and curly at the corners, as far as they're concerned, you're a bit peeled and curly at the corners!" - 1993
"I think we're gonna survive!" (immediately followed by him dropping the microphone) - Z-100 show, 1993
"There are two reasons why we are still around - because we want to, and because you want us to be!" - dd.com, 1998
"If you're lucky, you end up as wallpaper in people's lives, but if you aim for wallpaper, you end up as bog roll!" - 1999
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Simon on songwriting and being on stage:
"The others think I should stick to writing lyrics but I do come up with musical ideas, the best ideas!" - 1981
"I like to write things which I don't completely understand myself!"
"I don't like party politics. I like personal politics. Songwriting is an artform. I leave it up to my managers and record company to sell the songs. I'm a very serious artist in this context!"
"I do respect our audience very much and for a lot of different reasons as well. Because they've got the common sense to like decent music like ours, and for sticking by us in the face of great adversity!" - 1984
"It's one of the dilemmas of being up on stage. You have to make yourself seem like a god in some ways while still retaining your accessibility so that people feel they know you and can understand you. You have to combine the two!"
"Would anybody in the audience like to describe what the song 'The Reflex' is about, because I haven't got a clue!" - The Vibe, 1997
"We always liked mixing major and minor - it's a bit like mixing your drinks!" - dd.com, 1998
"It didn't make us write better songs - we just did write better songs than Spandau Ballet, full stop." - Simon on the rivalry between Spandau and Duran in the 80's, 1999
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Simon on drugs:
"Nobody ever got into heroin, which I'm very happy about, but, yeah, we did our fair bit of drugs!" - 1994
"In fact my mum rang me up and said, 'DO you do drugs?', and I said 'No!' - No! Shit! My mum's gonna read this! I've never had a drug problem!" - 1998 (40 years old and still worried about mummy's reaction!)
"I remember we did Feed The World in December and the News Of The World said 'Simon wept to feed the world'. They thought I was crying in the video, but I probably had some of John's coke stuck in my eye, hahah!" - 1998
"I last did coke in 1986. Nick hadn't done it, Warren is like Mr. Vegan and for John it was the sign of the devil. We'd lived through it and seen the shit and we felt we were the right people to say that. Coke has always been a problem for me, 'cause it drips corrosive mucus on your vocal chords. Most people can only do it for about two years. It makes you feel like shit!" - Simon on why they decided to record "White Lines", 1998
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Simon on various topics:
"Mistakes? I don't talk about mistakes. I learn from them!" - 1982
"That's what people do , they work and have parties. I like parties . I don't think there's anything wrong with that at all!" - 1984
"Roger still needs two hands for his!" - Simon when asked when he learned to play his instrument, 1984
"I could quite possibly have done this interview naked!" - 1987
"WHOOSH...." - 1993 and onwards
"Some people have to have the last word, I just have to have the last fiddle!" - E! TV Behind the Scenes, 1993
"I'm very much more musically biased than I am fashion biased. I like fashion, I like clothes. I like enhancing my body. It needs a lot of enhancing. I use it to serve my purposes, I don't serve the great God of fashion!" - 1993
"If you don't like it then FUCK YOU!"- When asked about "Thank You", 1995
"I have a motto: Always mix your drinks... with other drinks!" - Copenhagen, 1995
"One thing I really like is drunken Swedish tourists!" - Copenhagen, 1995
"My favourite philosopher is Aldous Huxley. He believed in living here and now, not spending time with your head floating around in the future, or your emotions up the asshole of the past. It is really important to live right now because then you're actually living!" - Playgirl, 1995
"Look at that... it's so 80's... it's so Dynasty... it's so... me!" - 1997
"Wheatgrass juice, the healthy alternative... unfortunately you have to take a shitload of drugs to make it taste halfway decent!" - 1997
"Oh yeah - it's sexy, it's VERY sexy!" - Simon to me when asked if he liked my belly button piercing, 1998
"Never say - would of, could of, or should of; never complain; never explain; always judge a book by its cover; always mix your drinks!" - Simon's 5 rules to live by, 1998
"Amanda and John is not a good combination!" - 1998
"It's a very thin line between charisma and bullshit!" - From 50 facts at dd.com, 1998
"Nick likes to try out new ideas. I suppose to some extent it has replaced shopping for him!" - dd.com, 1998
"I feel really sorry for Suede, who were the most credible band in the world for 10 minutes and have had to live up to it ever since!" - 2000
"People think it takes someone special or different to be a pop star. But it doesn't. I'm absolutely normal. It all feels like a big bluff sometimes!" - 1984
"Eastern jangles, flashes, jungles, all purple, gold and red, a crimson flag to herald the dawn and from the centre of the liquid flame steps the man!" - Simon giving a self-portrait
"I don't like the way I look. There are bits of me - of my body - I don't like!" - Simon's answer to the question "What's the worst thing about being Simon Le Bon?", 1990
"It's a recipe for disaster to take yourself seriously!" - 1993
"I've got that animal instinct you rely on when you're too stupid to think things out, which I have always been!" - 1997
"I wouldn't clone myself if I could, the world ain't big enough for the both of me!" - 1997
"I suppose I am a tart!" - From 50 facts at dd.com, 1998
"I like to think of myself as a consummate unprofessional!" - From 50 facts at dd.com, 1998
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Simon on his ego:
"I know I'm an egoist, but my ego is a motor not a monster!" - 1981
"I decided when I was young that I wanted lots of attention. Being a show-off got me involved in drama and the pop group business and that then got me nice girlfriends. So, I thought, I'll stick at it!" - 1983
"Money doesn't motivate me as much as pride and ego!" - 1984
"...and my ego remains as equally inflated as it ever has been..." - The Duran Duran Hotline, 1998
Back to top
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Simon on women/Yasmin:
"I've always been intrigued by girls. They're an endless source of mystery to me!" - 1984
"It might sound mad, but I'm really not that interested in women who throw themselves at you. The attraction's in the chase and the challenge!" - 1984
"I can't bear stupid girls - I find them a real turn off. I don't like ladies who can't stand on their own two feet either. Basically I like them to have a brain and a bit of independence!" - 1984
"Just don't take her to a restaurant. That way she won't throw food at you. Take her to a nightclub instead and point her in the direction of someone new!" - Simon on how to break up with a girl and let her down easy, 1987
"A slut is a girl who will sleep with anyone, and a bitch is a girl who will sleep with anyone but you!" - 1990
"It was immediate and compulsory. I had to have her. I had to get married to her. I had a feeling it was going to happen when I saw her photograph. She had this smile and I looked at it and thought, 'I could wake up with that smile for the rest of my life'!" - Simon on seeing Yasmin for the first time, 1990
"Why rock stars marry models? Because they can! It's the same answer to the question: 'Why do dogs lick their balls?' Because they can!" - MTV Europe, 1993
"She's got nicer everything - that's why I married her!" - Simon when asked what he thinks when people say that Yasmin is more famous and has nicer legs than he has, 1998
"If I'm honest, I did it for the birds. And being able to wear lipstick on stage!" - 1998
"I spent Christmas with my girlfriend Clare in Canada and then I went straight to Sri Lanka and met my other girlfriend, Anita. I couldn't make my mind up. Plus, there was a part of me that went 'Why the hell not?'!" - 1998
"I met Yasmin around then. I'd seen a photograph of her, invited her to see Indiana Jones and went out with her for two weeks. Why two weeks? She wouldn't fuck me. I couldn't figure for the life of me why not!" - 1998
"There's nothing wrong with seeing what's on the menu!" - dd.com, 1998
"I'm very lucky to have got married to a girl who earns because it's kept me in the lifestyle I have been accustomed to!" - 1998
"I'm down to my wife's last million!" - 2000
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Simon on sex:
"I remember hanging around one night outside the Playboy Club in London with a mate of mine, and for some reason we really did believe we'd find a rich widow who'd fancy one of us and try to take us home. Then I was informed that there was an Arab gentleman interested in my body, and I thought, no way!"
"There's nothing wrong with one night stands. I know that is very much a man's point of view. But with this sort of job it is sometimes the only relationship you can have. You can't go through the year without any kind of sexual or loving relationship at all, so you have to find happiness in things like that!"
"Sex has always been part of my work!" - 1985
"We used to say: 'Always wear your best underwear because you never know when you're gonna need it!', but lately I kind of changed my idea. I think maybe it's better if you just don't wear any underwear, just in case when you do come, you come undone" - Simon introducing "Come Undone", South Africa 1993
"I hope you're feeling horny tonight, 'cause I am!" - Z-100 show, 1993
"I believe the word 'fuck' means love. It's being misused and it's a good word. We should say it a lot!" - Playgirl, 1995
"I was never particular great with girls at school, so when the band took off I shagged myself senseless!" - 1997
Back to top
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Simon on the time before he joined Duran Duran:
"I think I'm happier now than I've ever been in my life. I had a happy childhood. I wouldn't mind going through it again, but I'd rather be a child in the future. I don't have that much nostalgia about my own childhood!" - 1981
"I started singing very young. I had a really good voice when I was very young - very high and clear. I joined church choir and my mother recorded me singing all these songs when I was about twelve. When she plays it now, it makes me cringe to hear myself!" - 1981
"I was a porter at a hospital in Harrow. It had a profound effect on me. I saw severed limbs, dead bodies, people badly hurt. But there was a good atmosphere. It was the will to survive. The tenacity of people... took me by surprise!" - 1981
"I am NOT working class!" - 1984
"The first time I became fashion conscious was when I realized I was the only boy left at my school still wearing short trousers!" - 1984
"I get a great deal of pleasure proving my headmaster wrong when he said I was crazy to consider going on stage, and I should have become a prison warder. I get a real laugh knowing that he sees me on TV!" - 1984
"My voice didn't break until I was 16. I worried that girls would think I wasn't well endowed!" - 1984
"By the time I joined, we were making demos and playing live shows. Before that I was in a punk band - totally, out-and-out suburban punk. Punk in England was always suburban kids coming into town and being punks and not knowing how to get home at 4 o'clock in the morning, That's what punk was all about when it first started!" - 1987
"In the days of punk, all we thought we had to do was say 'Fuck the Queen' and go out and have a good time, but we soon learned that you have to make a bit more of a statement than that. But it made the English newspapers nonetheless. So I think that sort of blows any chances of knighthood!" - Simon when asked if he expects to become Sir Simon, 1997
Back to top
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Simon on being in Duran Duran:
"We enjoy being schizophrenic!"
"When I first joined the band we all looked like a bunch of weirdoes!"
"The one thing Duran Duran have in common with Spandau Ballet is the urge to look good at all times!"
"If we are veterans, then the Rolling Stones ought to be bloody zombies!" - 1990
"I still think that "Violence Of Summer" is a great song. I mean, we really did get the girls in the blonde wigs before anybody else did - thank you very much!" - Extraordinary World, 1993
"We're just taking the piss out of ourselves, the way we are as a band and the way the industry is. I think there's more humour in the song than anything else!" - Simon about "Too Much Information", 1993
"I don't like serious bands, they bore the pants off me!" - 1993
"We were like a bunch of kids on the last day of school. Suddenly there was a party being thrown for us and it went on for five years. We enjoyed it, it was there, we earned a lot and we had a lot of fun!" - 1994
"I found a Japanese fan in my wardrobe once. As I opened the door, she came out and said: 'Oh, not John Taylor's room'" - RuPaul Show, 1997
"Making the first album, I drank too much beer and ate too much Shepherds Pie. They always wanted to do vocals after dinner. What a stupid idea! You can't sing after eating!" - 1998
"We were partying at all points. You get used to being an alcoholic, really. Part of being an alcoholic is getting used to it!" - 1998
"A decent pair of shades is essential in this business!" - dd.com, 1998
Back to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simon on ambition, success & survival:
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops!" - 1981
"You know, I was once quoted as saying we'll be the band to dance to when they drop the bomb. But I've got a very strong sense of the survival of the species. I believe in genetics and breeding, very much. That's a very important part of evolution. But I'm not a snob. Ask anybody... well, anybody who matters!" - 1984
"Actually, I've given up looking for true art. I'm happy now doing what I'm doing. And I believe in it... if I were rich and I wasn't doing this, I'd pay to do it! Just to get up on stage and having all those people looking at you! And some even listening to you!" - 1981
"Basically speaking if you've got something in mind you shouldn't give up until you get it. Otherwise you don't stand a chance. That's how Duran Duran think and it's true of anything, not just music!" - 1981
"The more success you achieve, the more hands come out either trying to drag you sideways into some unreal world of drugs or perversion, or there's lots of hands trying to drag you back down to the ground, back down to their level because they don't like to see you up there!" - 1982
"What kills a group isn't the pressures, or the booze or the girls. Boredom is the killer and as long as we're not bored, we shall be all right!" - 1984
"Survival is part of our ambition. To survive in this business is a great feat. But it's no good making a great business success if it destroys you as an individual!"
"If you've built your success on a tissue ladder of lies and deceptions and images, then it's particularly easy to be pulled down, but if you're honest... you can stand on the ground that you've created with your honesty!"
"The hardest task in music industry is not, as many people believe, sitting in the back of a limousine with a fabulous groupie trying to peel your velvet trousers off with one hand while rolling a joint with the other. It is in fact getting that first recognition for your work - I know, 'cause I've tried both!" - Simon when giving an award for best newcomer of the year, 1991
"When you have a teenage girl following, then you last just as long as your poster lasts on the back of the wardrobe door. As soon as that gets a bit peeled and curly at the corners, as far as they're concerned, you're a bit peeled and curly at the corners!" - 1993
"I think we're gonna survive!" (immediately followed by him dropping the microphone) - Z-100 show, 1993
"There are two reasons why we are still around - because we want to, and because you want us to be!" - dd.com, 1998
"If you're lucky, you end up as wallpaper in people's lives, but if you aim for wallpaper, you end up as bog roll!" - 1999
Back to top
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Simon on songwriting and being on stage:
"The others think I should stick to writing lyrics but I do come up with musical ideas, the best ideas!" - 1981
"I like to write things which I don't completely understand myself!"
"I don't like party politics. I like personal politics. Songwriting is an artform. I leave it up to my managers and record company to sell the songs. I'm a very serious artist in this context!"
"I do respect our audience very much and for a lot of different reasons as well. Because they've got the common sense to like decent music like ours, and for sticking by us in the face of great adversity!" - 1984
"It's one of the dilemmas of being up on stage. You have to make yourself seem like a god in some ways while still retaining your accessibility so that people feel they know you and can understand you. You have to combine the two!"
"Would anybody in the audience like to describe what the song 'The Reflex' is about, because I haven't got a clue!" - The Vibe, 1997
"We always liked mixing major and minor - it's a bit like mixing your drinks!" - dd.com, 1998
"It didn't make us write better songs - we just did write better songs than Spandau Ballet, full stop." - Simon on the rivalry between Spandau and Duran in the 80's, 1999
Back to top
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Simon on drugs:
"Nobody ever got into heroin, which I'm very happy about, but, yeah, we did our fair bit of drugs!" - 1994
"In fact my mum rang me up and said, 'DO you do drugs?', and I said 'No!' - No! Shit! My mum's gonna read this! I've never had a drug problem!" - 1998 (40 years old and still worried about mummy's reaction!)
"I remember we did Feed The World in December and the News Of The World said 'Simon wept to feed the world'. They thought I was crying in the video, but I probably had some of John's coke stuck in my eye, hahah!" - 1998
"I last did coke in 1986. Nick hadn't done it, Warren is like Mr. Vegan and for John it was the sign of the devil. We'd lived through it and seen the shit and we felt we were the right people to say that. Coke has always been a problem for me, 'cause it drips corrosive mucus on your vocal chords. Most people can only do it for about two years. It makes you feel like shit!" - Simon on why they decided to record "White Lines", 1998
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Simon on various topics:
"Mistakes? I don't talk about mistakes. I learn from them!" - 1982
"That's what people do , they work and have parties. I like parties . I don't think there's anything wrong with that at all!" - 1984
"Roger still needs two hands for his!" - Simon when asked when he learned to play his instrument, 1984
"I could quite possibly have done this interview naked!" - 1987
"WHOOSH...." - 1993 and onwards
"Some people have to have the last word, I just have to have the last fiddle!" - E! TV Behind the Scenes, 1993
"I'm very much more musically biased than I am fashion biased. I like fashion, I like clothes. I like enhancing my body. It needs a lot of enhancing. I use it to serve my purposes, I don't serve the great God of fashion!" - 1993
"If you don't like it then FUCK YOU!"- When asked about "Thank You", 1995
"I have a motto: Always mix your drinks... with other drinks!" - Copenhagen, 1995
"One thing I really like is drunken Swedish tourists!" - Copenhagen, 1995
"My favourite philosopher is Aldous Huxley. He believed in living here and now, not spending time with your head floating around in the future, or your emotions up the asshole of the past. It is really important to live right now because then you're actually living!" - Playgirl, 1995
"Look at that... it's so 80's... it's so Dynasty... it's so... me!" - 1997
"Wheatgrass juice, the healthy alternative... unfortunately you have to take a shitload of drugs to make it taste halfway decent!" - 1997
"Oh yeah - it's sexy, it's VERY sexy!" - Simon to me when asked if he liked my belly button piercing, 1998
"Never say - would of, could of, or should of; never complain; never explain; always judge a book by its cover; always mix your drinks!" - Simon's 5 rules to live by, 1998
"Amanda and John is not a good combination!" - 1998
"It's a very thin line between charisma and bullshit!" - From 50 facts at dd.com, 1998
"Nick likes to try out new ideas. I suppose to some extent it has replaced shopping for him!" - dd.com, 1998
"I feel really sorry for Suede, who were the most credible band in the world for 10 minutes and have had to live up to it ever since!" - 2000
