Gary Kemp Quotes (11 Quotes)

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

We monitor all of our burns in the park and have been working with Los Alamos National Lab to develop some projects cross-boundary, ... Fire has been here for thousands of years and there are many species ecologically dependent on fire. They have adapted

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Pop music should be about young people.

It has been a terrible affair for ourselves and our families and one that I'm sure was obviously going to destroy any hope of us making music again.

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.

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.

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.

But when you're an actor, you're a very small part in a machine. They're not your words. It's almost like being a session musician.