Quotes by Nick Rhodes

I don't think I'd describe our album as being trip-hop or electronica or anything like that, but there's no question that with what's happening and the atmosphere at the moment, it fits very well into that area. I mean, I was thrilled when I saw that the Prodigy album went to No. 1 in America, because it is a very different kind of sound--especially for radio over there, which is often very conservative.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

Oh, I love bios! I wouldn't say traditionally it was a concept album. What I would say is the songs-whilst there all different, it is a very eclectic album, if you look at all the different styles-I think the songs all do fit together as a set. It's probably the most complete album we've made for many years.

To me, I just see that as shedding skin, to be honest. John [Taylor, former bassist] leaving was obviously very sad for us--particularly for me, because I'd grown up with him--but at the same time, it was time for us to turn into a butterfly again. Metamorphosis is very important to us--to move on, to do something different. But I think some things have stayed the same with us.

We always like satisfied customers.

We've taken on a very ambitious project, which is like a cyber-soap-rock-opera, I suppose. It's a very modern piece called Bored With Prozac And The Internet. And that's going to be a trilogy, but the first album of that is completed, and when we were doing that, we spent a lot of time in the studio, and I suppose we really learned a lot about each other and what our strengths and weakness were for production. And we also wrote and produced a couple of songs for Blondie.

When we finished Ordinary World we all looked at each other and said, if this doesn't work, then we're doing something wrong. But again, I have to say, as a complete album, I really think this one makes a statement that the other ones haven't yet. I mean, I hope we do an even better album in '98 or '99, but certainly this one has said a lot that I wanted to have Duran Duran say for the '90s.

With a lot of the new music that's around and the acts that have actually cited us as being influences... I wouldn't be so arrogant as to take somebody's record and say, I think they've taken that from what we've done, but definitely I like the sound of a lot of things out there, and they're in an area in which I enjoy making music myself.

You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.