“You can retire from your career after having a Beatle portray you in a...” — Russell Mael Quote

“You can retire from your career after having a Beatle portray you in any sort of way, let alone in a music video that lasts forever.”

“Being overtly political just seems, for us, too easy of a target to be doing. We like to channel our creativity in a way that's more through a spirit, and a sensibility, that runs through all of Sparks' albums.”

“There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come to London and then have this 180 degree turn in the reception to our music was really baffling.”

“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”

“I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.”

“A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It's something that marks you.”