“Bang! He was off. He just attacked it. It was perfect. Now I had something I could build a song around.”, in: Paul Lester, The Story Behind The Song: New Rose by The Damned auf loudersound.com, 12. Oktober 2016, aufgerufen am 8. Dezember 2019
“My famous spoken intro […] is from the Shangri-La's Leader of the Pack, which I adored. I'd just been clowning around, but everyone liked it so we kept it.” Dave Vanian in: Dave Simpson, The Damned: how we made New Rose, auf der Website von The Guardian vom 19. März 2018, aufgerufen am 8. Dezember 2019
“New Rose was a raw, visceral, classic three-minute pop song.” Dave Vanian in: Dave Simpson, The Damned: how we made New Rose, auf der Website von The Guardian vom 19. März 2018, aufgerufen am 8. Dezember 2019