Gary Kemp Quotes

"Spandau Ballet is a brand name. Part of me never wants to do it again. Part of me is fascinated of what it would be like. Becuase we spent the most amazing time together."

"I can`t get away from `True`. It`s been played 3 million times on American radio."

"I think that Will Young is this generation`s Des O`Connor or Max Bygraves. Where is the sex, drama and outrage in music anymore?"

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

"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."

"I like a band with sex and attitude. Coldplay and Travis do nothing for me."

"Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you`re just a tool for someone`s ideas."

Pop music should be about young people.

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.

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.

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

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That`s all I did. I had no other social life. I don`t want my life to be like that now. I`ve spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

But when you`re an actor, you`re a very small part in a machine. They`re not your words. It`s almost like being a session musician.

It has been a terrible affair for ourselves and our families and one that I`m sure was obviously going to destroy any hope of us making music again.

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

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

Your life is the same wherever you go.