Marc Almond Quotes

There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

I like situations that force me to rethink things.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.