I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.
From Andrew Eldritch
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.
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