I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

- Gary Kemp

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

- Gary Kemp

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

- Gary Kemp

My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

- Gary Kemp

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

- Gary Kemp

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

- Gary Kemp

I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

- Gary Kemp

I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

- Gary Kemp

Your life is the same wherever you go.

- Gary Kemp

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

- Gary Kemp

The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

- Gary Kemp

My instinct is to be very controlling.

- Gary Kemp

Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

- Gary Kemp

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

- Gary Kemp

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

- Gary Kemp

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

- Gary Kemp

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

- Gary Kemp

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'

- Gary Kemp

I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

- Gary Kemp

I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

- Gary Kemp