Nick Rhodes

“Music is the one thing that has been consistently here for me. It hasn't let me down.”

“I'm a control freak. I am. I've been called it since I was a child.”

“Pop music is a disposable art form. It's meant to be of the moment.”

“I've always been a futures trader. I'm always trading one promise for another.”

“I don't think you can ever be too weird. I think you can be too boring, but never too weird.”

“We were always very ambitious. We wanted to be the biggest band in the world.”

“The great thing about technology is that it allows you to do things that you couldn't do before.”

“I think it's important to keep challenging yourself. Otherwise, you just get stale.”

“You have to be quite driven, I think, to be a musician. You have to have a certain amount of self-belief.”

“I always thought that art and fashion were very closely linked.”

“The '80s were a very decadent period. There was a lot of excess.”

“Being in a band is like being in a marriage. You have your ups and downs.”

“I don't have a problem with being a pop star. I think it's a great job.”

“I think fashion is a form of self-expression. It's about how you feel on a particular day.”

“I'm very much a city person. I like the energy of cities.”