Gary Numan chats to ilikemusic.com

I think the best album I've ever made was the last one, Pure, and yet that was the most difficult to make. Really challenging. For the first time in a long time people were expecting it and it was due to be reviewed. People had been ignoring my albums for fifteen years, or slating them. But I started to get good reviews and my relationship with the press got better. And the record sales over the past two years had been growing, so there was a lot more expectation for the last one. People were talking about me being influential, and all of a sudden, there was a massive reputation to live up to.

So the pressure was enormous and I was totally unprepared for it, so I knew it had to be a really good album. But in the studio nothing sounded good enough and I wasn't sleeping, and then it was finally done and finished and it ended up getting good reviews, and it sold better than anything else for about 20 odd years, and it was just such a relief. I was really proud of it and all the more so because it was difficult to make.
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