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" When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed. "

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" I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it. "

Chris Lowe

You

Excuses

People

" Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like. "

" Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well. "

" Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. "

" Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well. "

" Chart positions aren't the be all and end all. "

" The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time. "

" We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down. "

Chris Lowe

Forgetting

Songs

" You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing. "

" Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground. "

" There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do you know who I am?', but sometimes I'm with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, 'Oh, please don't shame me!'. "

Chris Lowe

I Am

People

" I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place. "

" Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me. "

Chris Lowe

Music

Hate

" Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly. "

" House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all. "

" I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. "

" Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera. "

" I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before. "

" There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity. "

" We'd be nowhere without our looks. "

" I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. "

" I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think. "

" There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think. "