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.

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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.

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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.

- Chris Lowe

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

- Chris Lowe

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.

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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.

- 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.

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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.

- Chris Lowe

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

- Chris Lowe

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.

- Chris Lowe

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 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

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.

- Chris Lowe