Chris Lowe

If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

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

We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

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.

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

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

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

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.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.