“What happened to me was, I made it on my second album, and I’d never been on a big concert tour supporting anybody, I really hadn’t even headlined any clubs or anything like that, so I went from being absolutely nothing, rock bottom, to about as big as you can get, in this country anyway, and it was very much…it was very difficult, really. You’re put in the same class as people like obviously Bowie and Bryan Ferry and all the others of that class, standard, which is nice in one respect, but very difficult in another, ’cause they’ve been doing it for ten, fifteen years, and you’ve been doing it for about ten or fifteen days, and so it’s…obviously I had a lot to learn.”

Gary Numan, Berserker concert, 11 December 1984