'Tim Pope is a true original, a genuine maverick, and I am very lucky to have been part of his bright and beautiful, dark and dangerous and slightly preposterous ongoing story ... I am also very proud to call him a friend.' Robert Smith (The Cure)

'Tim Pope is, to my mind, the absolute dog's bollocks in the world of pop video. He is the OG, the Don, he literally wrote the book.' Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim)

'Tim crashed the stage, camera on a fishing rod, chasing the shot he was seeing ... and the next thing I knew, he was pressing it into my forehead. The book brought that moment vividly back.' Neil Young

'For "Sex Dwarf", Tim threw a bucket of maggots over us as I ran around in a leather jockstrap. There was a moment when we all thought, perhaps this time we've gone too far. It's all in here.' Marc Almond (Soft Cell)

'A dirty little page-turner from England's greatest music video director. Like the man himself, it made me laugh and weep - all at the same time.' Matt Johnson (The The)

'Like the man himself, I Shoot Rock Stars is a brilliant, madcap adventure featuring a cast list of who's who in music of the past forty years.' Tim Burgess (The Charlatans)

'Tim is a strange person.' Iggy Pop