Ian McCulloch
English singer-songwriter who is the lead singer of the post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen.
They were always going to be the biggest band in the world. We wanted nothing to do with success the way U2 saw it. It wasn't to do with conquering the world; it was to do with those lads, like me and Ian Curtis, who liked the Silver Surfer and Bowie. At some point everyone seemed to go toward that Live Aid goal of being seen everywhere, in every sodding street, in every sodding nook and cranny in the world. I never wanted that.
How can you not sell the first three Bunnymen albums? It's like, how can you not sell the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, and The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch?
There was even talk at one point of getting Del Shannon to produce our first album.
I'm waiting for the gift of vision.
I listen back to some of Porcupine now and... well, not blush exactly, we were great and all that... but we could have been just anyone, you know?