Gary Numan chats to ilikemusic.com

ILM: You're seen by many as the Godfather of Electronica but have had a major helping hand in Industrial Rock. Are people now starting to realise there's more to you than meets the eye?

Gary: I think what's going on at the moment is like the high point and culmination of what's been building for the past five or six years, and it's been great. Because, there's a lot of people around who may not have even heard of me (the Sugababes hadn't), because my big success was before many of them were even born, and I've got no problem with that - it's part of my job to tell people who I am and what I do. But it's been growing.

One of the problems you have when you've been around for a long time, is getting over the preconceptions that people have of you, and everytime they play Cars on the radio, it doesn't do me much good as I wrote that a very long time ago. So for a long time I've been turning down more things than I've been doing, because they had an 80s theme, like an 80s quiz or singing alongside a Big Breakfast presenter, so I've just had nothing to do with that whole 80s thing and anything nostalgiac. All of those retro tours that have been going on, I've stayed out of all of it, because, to me it's the kiss of death. Once you allow yourself to be cemented into an era, that's you done, apart from doing retro tours.
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