49 Quotes by Alan Vega

And when I finally got dumped from Elektra, which was pretty good, though at the time it was kinda painful, I just turned things around.

Everybody came in to see Suicide to be entertained, and all we did was give them back the street, in all its glory, and that's what they hated us for.

No, it was a company called CRASH. They're a very hot ad company in England. A very commercial ad company, one of the biggest, does all these commercials.

I'm going back in time to re-listen to the things I listened to years ago and discovering it all over again with new ears, ya know?

And I'll tell you something, man, usually our sets are 45 minutes, maybe do an encore or two, maybe tops we'll play for an hour.

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing – I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was – Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

But of course it’s always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can’t ever get rid of that.

Usually I’m the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!