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By AnonymGary Kemp
Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
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.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I love my children unconditionally.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
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.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
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.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
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.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
My life is routine-obsessed. I'm OCD, and if I'm not at home, I always get up early and exercise. I don't crash and burn at night, not these days, so early-ish to bed. At home, I have three small boys who bring me down to earth with school runs and endless meals.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Pop music should be about young people.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
The breakup of my first marriage was my first failure; I had to learn to accept that and support the people involved. The court case brought against me by three of the band was awful, but learning how to let it go, move on, and come back together as friends and creative partners was a life lesson above any other.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Your life is the same wherever you go.
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By AnonymGary Kemp
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
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