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.

- Alison Moyet

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…

- Alison Moyet

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

- Alison Moyet

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 i…

- Alison Moyet

I've always been "other." I've always felt odd; I have always felt foreign in the environment I've been in. When you are young, that is a really unco…

- Alison Moyet

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

- Alison Moyet

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rathe…

- Alison Moyet

I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many - I do have a complete ability to emphasize wi…

- Alison Moyet

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

- Alison Moyet