Top 50 Marc Almond Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I like situations that force me to rethink things.”

— Marc Almond

2. “I made a creativity out of that messiness.”

— Marc Almond

3. “I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I’m a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.”

— Marc Almond

4. “That’s the way I work and one day I won’t have the energy to do it, so I think it’s always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.”

— Marc Almond

5. “A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.”

— Marc Almond

6. “If you were born by the sea, there’s always a magnet that draws you back there.”

— Marc Almond

7. “On my Instagram, I’m always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city – and London more than anywhere – has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can’t allow it to become a monoculture.”

— Marc Almond

8. “I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they’re part of this life but they’re not.”

— Marc Almond

9. “Sometimes I ask myself, “Should I be out in a club?” But it’s about realising I don’t need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.”

— Marc Almond

10. “I’d always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I’ve got a big collection of them.”

— Marc Almond

11. “I’m the most indecisive person in the world. I’ll do three versions of a song, then think, “Is the demo better?””

— Marc Almond

12. “I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.”

— Marc Almond

13. “I thought, I might not look my best, I’ve forgotten half the words to my songs and I’m suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I’ve just got to get out there and do it.”

— Marc Almond

14. “I can’t read music and I’m crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can’t remember words, names, places.”

— Marc Almond

15. “Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn’t about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It’s about making people believe in the story you’re telling.”

— Marc Almond

16. “I’m not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.”

— Marc Almond

17. “Soho has got to be at its centre. It’s got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.”

— Marc Almond

18. “Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don’t feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.”

— Marc Almond

19. “When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I’m not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.”

— Marc Almond

20. “Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.”

— Marc Almond

21. “A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.”

— Marc Almond

22. “That’s what I like to do, I like to make songs.”

— Marc Almond

23. “I mean whatever I do it’s important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I’m doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.”

— Marc Almond

24. “The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.”

— Marc Almond

25. “As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.”

— Marc Almond

26. “Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.”

— Marc Almond

27. “As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.”

— Marc Almond

28. “My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.”

— Marc Almond

29. “I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don’t have the distractions that I had when I was younger.”

— Marc Almond

30. “I don’t care much about success or anything like that. I’ve only ever wanted life to be an adventure.”

— Marc Almond

31. “It’s a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.”

— Marc Almond

32. “I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.”

— Marc Almond

33. “I liked the idea of writing a song saying I’m happy with who I am, and I don’t mind if people think I’m some old git.”

— Marc Almond

34. “I’m always aware of mortality.”

— Marc Almond

35. “The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.”

— Marc Almond

36. “So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that’s unrepeatable.”

— Marc Almond

37. “I’ve always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.”

— Marc Almond

38. “I’ve got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, “You really shouldn’t do so many records”, because it actually harms your career.”

— Marc Almond

39. “I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it’s scary Up North!”

— Marc Almond

40. “People always go on about sleaze, but I think it’s only a small part of what I write about.”

— Marc Almond

41. “People come from all over the world to see this little place they’ve seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.”

— Marc Almond

42. “I’m often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.”

— Marc Almond

43. “Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.”

— Marc Almond

44. “You can’t keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.”

— Marc Almond

45. “I was very much a mess, as a person. I’d come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.”

— Marc Almond

46. “I thought, I’m in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?”

— Marc Almond

47. “I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.”

— Marc Almond

48. “I think there’s always been singers like that and i’ve done my fair share of cheese as well.”

— Marc Almond

49. “These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.”

— Marc Almond

50. “Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.”

— Marc Almond