were charged with getting the computer to obey their commands, as if it were a wild, untamable beast. They were the princes of - Elvis Costello

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Cook was then very handsome in a fey English way and dressed in floor-length, striped djellaba. In the role of the dead-eyed Spiggott, he intoned lines like “You fill me with inertia,” while appearing utterly indifferent to the beauties who danced in attendance. It was a scene that might have provided the basic blueprint for what would later become the Pet Shop Boys’ career.