Simon Le Bon: Self
Quotes
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[first lines]
Simon Le Bon : What did I want to be when I grow up? I wanted to be adored.
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Simon Le Bon : When your record's not as successful as the one before, nobody wants to talk to you. The press don't want to talk to you. The music press aren't interested because there are other things, you know, you can't get on the radio, because, "You're old stuff, man, You're old news. We''ve got new stuff we're playing here on radio one." You sit there in your business manager's office in New York City looking at pictures of all the other acts he's working on and talking about we can do to save this, what can we do to make it work? The first time it happens, it's really scary because you thought it would carry on forever. But, it happens. You get through it. And the next time it happens, it's not so bad. And then the next time it happens, it's not so bad. And then you get the point when you think, "You know what? Let's just relax and do what we do. Do we believe in the music we make? Yes, we do. Can we go in and write new stuff? Have you still got stuff inside you that you want to say? Yes, I have. Yes, we can." And you do it.
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Simon Le Bon : This one person threw three bras on stage *and* two pairs of knickers. I thought, "She's definitely not wearing any underwear now."
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Simon Le Bon : I think living the life was very much a sort of a part of the rock star life style. We were objects of desire.
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Simon Le Bon : "The Ragged Tiger" is that kind of dirty, but, incredible, charismatic animal that is success.
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Simon Le Bon : [referring to the "Hungry Like the Wolf" music video] On first glance, it looks like a guy chasing a girl. It's slightly uncomfortable, actually. But, its us chasing our career, trying to make it happen, and we were so hungry. We would chase and we would grab and we would achieve. And that is what that song is about.
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Simon Le Bon : I actually think we proved the detractors wrong in the last decade. The fact that we're still here - 40 years after we started. That's - that's the real proof.
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Simon Le Bon : "Ordinary World" is a song about trying to get over the death of a best friend. And putting it in words freed me. Absolutely. It really worked for me, emotionally and mentally. Everybody who heard it could apply it to something in their life and it meant something to them - but, for a totally different reason. And it became such an important song for us. And I think it only had that power to touch people because it meant so much to me.
