Neil Tennant

“I've always thought that the great thing about pop music is that it's escapism.”

“Pop music is a mirror of our times, of our fantasies, of our desires.”

“I think it's important to be a little bit of an outsider, and I'm not the first person to say that. I think it's a very good thing.”

“We've always been interested in the relationship between artifice and reality.”

“I think pop music is a great art form. I don't see it as a lesser art form.”

“I think being English is a state of mind, not a nationality.”

“Actually, I'm not a very cynical person. I'm a very sentimental person.”

“There's an English tradition of melancholic pop music.”

“We always thought the Pet Shop Boys was a kind of brand.”

“We don't do nostalgia. We're not interested in it.”

“All pop music is political in a sense.”

“We like the idea of mixing high art with pop music.”

“When I was a journalist, I always felt I was on the outside looking in.”

“The great thing about pop music is that it's a universal language.”

“Irony is a very important part of our work.”