Chris Lowe Quotations

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

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

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

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

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

There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.

The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

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.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

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 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.

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!'.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We suspect that if the economy remains as soft as it has been lately, the Fed may very well decide a break is in order somewhere along the way.

He does not want a rapid break in bond prices to snuff out the jobs recovery before it has a chance to catch hold.

Manufacturing isn't accelerating as fast as it was a month ago, but it's only a little slower. The report still shows a healthy manufacturing sector.

Retail sales are expected to be down, but worry about Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index releases Thursday and Friday could keep any bond market rally in check.

It appears the fear of temporary inflation pressures associated with disrupted energy supplies and rebuilding outweighed the fear of temporary economic distress.

What's striking is how much it looks like the statement from the last three meetings.

The writing seems to be on the wall at this point. Prices are still falling. Meanwhile, the supply continues to rise.

Ex-transport is only barely up, and the decline last month was only marginally revised, so it's a bit disappointing, because it marks essentially the fourth month with no orders growth at all.

Strong December durable goods and the upward revision to November show that perhaps there isn't enough monetary restraint after all.

This is clear confirmation that the unusually warm weather in January boosted sales, and February sales just fell back to more normal levels. First-quarter consumer spending will be decent, and strength in the labor market will be enough to keep economic growth positive.

The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the health of the economy as a whole or the health of the financial markets as a whole.

They (China) ship a lot of goods to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart pays for these goods in dollars and manufacturers in China trade these for China's local currency and eventually the dollars work their way into China's central bank.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

Nothing like tailgating on the Bayou. LSU is my personal favorite. Maybe it's my penchant for the spicy stuff. But there's nothing like sampling a little gumbo, a little jambalaya and then diving face-first in to a shrimp boil. The aroma just walking through the parking lot of Tiger Stadium stays with you the whole day, and the LSU fans get there early and stay late.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

There's a sense of urgency in construction. If builders have approval for a project, they're going to try to move ahead as quickly as possible.

It's hard to imagine anybody having the backbone that Greenspan brought to the job, the ability to withstand months and months of criticism and stick to his guns.

For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.