Duran Duran Quotes
Simon Le Bon
"I've always rather fancied John"
"I wouldn't clone myself if I could, the world ain't big enough for the both of me!"
"I suppose I am tart!"
"Actually, I believe F*ck means love. It's being misused and it's a good word. We should say it alot."
"And my ego remains as equally inflated as it's ever been..."
On why rock stars marry models:
"Because they can. [Laughs] It's the same answer to the question "Why do dogs lick their balls?"
On his teen "angst":
"It was quite a difficult time. I was, in fact, the last guy in my school to be wearing short trousers. I was the last guy to get hair around my balls. I was the last guy to get a big dick. Actually, no, that’s not true. Some of them never got big dicks. I was one of the last guys whose voice broke. My voice didn’t even break, it just slowly changed over a period of four to five years. I was still speaking in a squeaky high voice at 14 and 15. I was a really late developer."
"It was a really rock star thing to do" (on getting Yasmin's number from a fellow model)
"It's mine, and I'll wash it as fast as I like!"
"That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls"
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops."
"I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s."
"We have always ignored and avoided our screaming fans."
"If you're ever planning on going into music, let me give you some advice. Never wear a velcro fly on stage, it's just not worth the anxiety."
On his relationship with Yasmin:
"She's young at heart and that's the attraction. Just because she's reached a certain age doesn't mean she's joined the fat people's club."
John Taylor
"I'm old fashioned...I don't believe in marriage"
"I look like a raging queen!"
"Bathroom? Who has six bathrooms? Do I? What the f*ck is this six bathroom thing?"
"I am not ticklish anywhere, much to the chagrin of the children around me! Who are constantly being frustrated by that... I certainly used to be..."
On parenting:
"Patience is a necessity. And love of course. Loving yourself. Parenting is extremely hard on the self. It's no use beating yourself up when you encounter difficulties. A term I became aware of was Ambivalence, which is what happens when you experience two emotional extremes at the same time. How can you possibly want to throw out of the window this little screaming thing that you love so much when it is quieter?"
On today's groupies:
"They're a lot sexier than they were. They're older and they've learned how to put make-up on."
Nick Rhodes
"Basically, I think it all adds to the rumours that we're going slowly insane. That's why we smile all the time."
"We didn't find out Roger was called Taylor until months later. He was just 'Roger' "
"To me, I just see that as shedding skin, to be honest. John [Taylor, former bassist] leaving was obviously very sad for us--particularly for me, because I'd grown up with him--but at the same time, it was time for us to turn into a butterfly again. Metamorphosis is very important to us--to move on, to do something different. But I think some things have stayed the same with us."
"We got on a ride in 1980, and it didn't stop until we slammed on the breaks really hard sometime in 1985. It just didn't stop. When we finally stopped, like on the edge of a cliff, and looked back at everything, we said "My God, we went all that way, and now we're stuck here?"! there were many things we could look back on and say "how did that happen?" "How did we LET that happen?" Or "I can't believe we did THAT"! It was only then that we realized (Our mistakes), and by then all those greedy lawyers were eating us for lunch."
"I don't believe in comebacks"
"With a lot of the new music that's around and the acts that have actually cited us as being influences... I wouldn't be so arrogant as to take somebody's record and say, "I think they've taken that from what we've done," but definitely I like the sound of a lot of things out there, and they're in an area in which I enjoy making music myself."
Andy Taylor
"I'm telling ya, I'm as happy as a pig in shit!"
"He's got very big feet - John. Possibly one of the biggest pairs of feet I've ever seen.
"John wears ladies knickers!"
"We had a huge audience, we sold truck loads of albums, so if we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, then we would be selling people short.
The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch I guess."
"You can't do some of the things you used to do….haha. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything. When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that!
But yes, everyone has their own responsibilities now and that does make you easier on yourself.
You have to be! We play a long show and you can't beat yourself up too much over it as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.
Roger Taylor
"You can't scratch your bum in public anymore"
"It makes me angry when I read reviews and they say the audience is full of 15-year-old screaming girls. It's really about half guys -- the young girls can make their screams heard better, that's all, while the guys tend to hang at the back of the hall."
"In Seattle, they sold seats behind the stage, so the fans were all around us. The first two songs, we could hardly hear ourselves. We said, 'This is it. We're home!' We thought we were over the top in England; here it's blown our minds."
On writing and recording "Astronaut":
It's a complete collaboration. We just set up our instruments in a room and plug in, much as The Beatles would have done 30 years ago. We just jam until we get things--until we get interesting grooves and chord progressions and melodies--and we just work it up from there. It's not like one guy comes in and says, "OK guys, this is the song. This is what you're going to play and this is what you're going to play." It's very much a team effort.