The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the…

- Peter Murphy

The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding…

- Peter Murphy

Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

- Peter Murphy

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

- Peter Murphy

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

- Peter Murphy

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

- Peter Murphy