104 Quotes by Marc Almond

I like situations that force me to rethink things.

What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.