"As Alice Cooper and David Bowie are both old enough to be my dad - no offence - I don't think I have much in common with either of them. Marilyn Manson said to me that he thought his Mechanical Animals album had a bit of Numan and a bit of Bowie - which I was quite proud of but I found it easier to spot the Bowie influence rather than mine."

Gary Numan, The Sun Online webchat, 2002