Alison Moyet Quotes

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

Yazoo is the name of an old blues label and also a town in America. I like it because it doesn’t mean a thing, it has no immediate connotations. That’s what I hate about so many names today – they’re so obviously fashionable.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away from a generic line up and back into the world of a programmer. Born of reconstructed improvisation I like to think of it as Prog-Pop, but I also like to think of big dogs as small horses. So don’t hang on to that thought long. Unless, of course, you think it astute of me in which case I am right

When you have a creative mind it doesn’t stop going.

Instead of thinking that’s a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don’t want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.