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I Went To A Middle-class School, But My Background Is Working Class. I Got The Best Of Both Worlds, I Saw Both Classes, So I Have A Pretty Fair Idea Of How People Live And Why They Do It.

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I Went To A Middle-class School, But My Background Is Working Class. I Got The Best Of Both Worlds, I Saw Both Classes, So I Have A Pretty Fair Idea Of How People Live And Why They Do It.

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1961 Was When I Was Really Into Clothes. I Left School At 15 And Started Copying A Bloke Who Used To Go Up On The Train To London With Me; Leslie, I Think His Name Was. He Was Like, Top Mod Of His Own Area. He Wore Italian Jackets With White Linen Jeans. Boy, Was That Cool! I Mean, That's In Style Now - It's Very Much The L.a. Look. But He Was Wearing It Then, And It Looked Supercool.

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Elvis Is English, And Climbs The Hills. Can't Tell The Bullshit From The Lies.

I Had A Fantasy That I'd Drift Up To Scotland And Spend My Life As A Faux Bodhisattua.

Elvis Was A Major Hero Of Mine. I Was Probably Stupid Enough To Believe That Having The Same Birthday As Him Actually Meant Something.

The Truest Form Of Any Form Of Revolutionary Left, Whatever You Want To Call It, Was Jack Kerouac, E.e. Cummings, And Allan Ginsberg's Period. Excuse Me But That Was Where It Was At. The Hippies, I'm Afraid, Don't Know What's Happening.

I Just Put Drugs Down To Luck. I Persevere Quite Honestly, And I've Got A Fair Amount Of Discipline That Keeps Me Out Of Deep Water.

I'm Just An Individual Who Doesn't Feel That I Need To Have Somebody Qualify My Work In Any Particular Way. I'm Working For Me.

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I Have To Take Total Control Myself. I Can't Let Anybody Else Do Anything, For I Find That I Can Do Things Better For Me. I Don't Want To Get Other People Playing With What They Think That I'm Trying To Do.

By The Mid-'80s, It Was Really Apparent To Me That I Really Needed To Stop Losing Myself In My Work And In My Addictions. What Happens Is You Just Wake Up One Morning And Feel Absolutely Dead. You Can't Even Drag Your Soul Back Into Your Body. You Feel You Have Negated Everything That Is Wonderful About Life. When You Have Fallen That Far, It Feels Like A Miracle When You Regain Your Love Of Life.

There's A Schizoid Streak Within The Family Anyway So I Dare Say That I'm Affected By That. The Majority Of The People In My Family Have Been In Some Kind Of Mental Institution, As For My Brother He Doesn't Want To Leave. He Likes It Very Much.

I Re-invented My Image So Many Times That I'm In Denial That I Was Originally An Overweight Korean Woman.

I Just Tried Everything Out - I Mean, Everything. Even My Sexual Orientation; I Was Just Searching For What I Really Wanted. And I Didn't Quite Know.

I Believe In Beatles, I Believe My Little Soul Has Grown.

I Wanted To Rewrite How Rock Music Was Perceived.

Church On Time, Makes Me Party.

I Don't Think I Did Anything That My Contemporaries Didn't; It Was Just That I Was The Only One Who Talked About It. In The Sixties Anyone Who Had A Sense Of Style Seemed To Be Gay. I Wanted To Indentify With That.

I'm Afraid Of Americans.

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Hey Man, I Gotta Straighten My Face. This Mellow Thighed Chick Just Put My Spine Out Of Place.

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Put On Your Red Shoes, And Dance The Blues.

It's Only Forever... Not Long At All.

This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll. This Is Genocide!

I'm Very At Ease, And I Like It. I Never Thought I Would Be Such A Family-oriented Guy; I Didn't Think That Was Part Of My Makeup. But Somebody Said That As You Get Older You Become The Person You Always Should Have Been, And I Feel That's Happening To Me. I'm Rather Surprised At Who I Am, Because I'm Actually Like My Dad!

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It Always Felt Like You Were Trying Too Hard To Look Like The Audience Or Something. That Whole Thing About The Artistic Integrity, Which, Of Course, I've Never Bought Into - With Any Artist. It's Just Not A Real Thing.

I've Never Responded Well To Entrenched Negative Thinking.

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The Coming Together Of People I Find Obscene As A Principle. It Is Not Human. It Is Not A Natural Thing As Some People Would Have Us Believe.

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You Know, I Don't Feel Fifty. I Feel Not A Day Over Forty-nine. It's Incredible. I'm Bouncy, I Feel Bouncy.

I Had Very Deep Concerns About My Financial Status Because I Found That Up Until "let's Dance" I Was Virtually Broke Again. I Had Been So Irresponsible In How I Dealt With My Financial Affairs. I Take Full Responsibility For That.

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If We Could Be Heroes, If Just For One Day.

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I Started Playing Around With Local Rock Band Swith The Alto. And Then, In A Nutshell, Somebody Fell Ill One Night, The Lead Singer Of One Of The Bands, And They Knew I Could Sing, So They Asked Me If I Would Stand In. And I Quite Enjoyed It, Actually, I Must Say, At 14. It Was A Real Trip To Have Girls Wave At You And Smile And Everything Just Because You Opened Your Mouth And Sang.

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I Couldn't Stand To Be Separated With My Wife For Months. It Became Quickly Apparent To Me That I Needed To Find A Balance Between My Absolute Work Obsession And A Private Life That We Could Share Without My Disappearing All The Time.

I've Come To The Realisation That I Have Absolutely No Idea What I'm Doing Half The Time...

I'm An Instant Star. Just Add Water And Stir.

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[david] Bowie Had A Genius For Continual Change Himself, Reinventing His Sound And His Image Throughout The Decades. Each Album Seemed To Find Bowie In A Different Persona, With A New Sound To Match His New Look.

I'm Afraid Of Americans; I'm Afraid Of The World; I'm Afraid I Can't Help It.

Keep Your 'lectric Eye On Me Babe Put Your Ray Gun To My Head Press Your Space Face Close To Mine, Love Freak Out In A Moonage Daydream, Oh Yeah!

Things Have To Hit For The Moment. That's One Of The Reasons I'm Into Video; The Image Has To Hit Immediately. I Adore Video And The Whole Cutting Up Of It.

It's A Compulsive Need To Wreck Everything. You Might Notice There's A Pattern Of Stripping Down And Building Back Up Again Throughout My Life. But I Guess That's How Some Of Us Conduct Our Lives.

Is It Nice In Your Snowstorm- Freezing Your Brain? Do You Think That Your Face Looks The Same?

See The Mice In Their Million Hordes From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads.

The Public, Obviously, They Takes Things In A Very Simplest Fashion And So They Should. That's Why We Have Such Wonderful Television.

Sometimes You Stumble Across A Few Chords That Put You In A Reflective Place.

If You Want It, Boys, Get It Here, Thing.

I Don't Like People Probing Into My Life, So I Reveal As Little As Possible Or Lie About It As Much As Need Be So As To Give Them Something To Write About.

My Work Is Really The Accumulation Of These Different Moods That I've Had Throughout My Life And Where They've Taken Me. I Start Looking Back, And I Think, I've Actually Created A Life Out Of All This, Out Of These Changes Of Mood. They've Pushed Me Through All These Years, And I Seem To Have A Semblance Of A Life, And If I Look Very Carefully, I Can See Some Thematic Design To It. There's Some Continuity.

Who'll Love Aladdin Sane? Battle Cries And Champagne Just In Time For Sunrise.

People Look To Me To See What The Spirit Of The Seventies Is.

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You Can Neither Win Nor Lose If You Don't Run The Race

Ziggy Played Guitar, Jamming Good With Weird And Gilly.

I Could Never Have Done What I Did Without Being Involved With Lindsay Kemp's Company.

Look Up Here, I'm In Heaven.

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He Says He's A Beautician And Sells You Nutrition, And Keeps All Your Dead Hair For Making Underwear.

I Went Through All The Musicians In My Life Who I Admire As Bright, Intelligent, Virtuosic Players.

I Never Really Had Much Of An Interest In Fashion.

The Absolute Transformation Of Everything That We Ever Thought About Music Will Take Place Within 10 Years, And Nothing Is Going To Be Able To Stop It. I See Absolutely No Point In Pretending That It's Not Going To Happen. I'm Fully Confident That Copyright, For Instance, Will No Longer Exist In 10 Years.

All The Great Mystical Religions Put A Strong Emphasis On The Redeeming Qualities Of Sex.

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There Have Been Times When I've Written Something And It Goes Out And It Comes Back In A Letter From Some Kid As To What They Think About It And I've Taken Their Analysis To Heart So Much That I Have Taken Up His Thing. Writing What My Audience Is Telling Me To Write.

Comfort Comes Into Your House First As Guest, Then As A Host, Then Finally As The Master.

You Should Turn Around At The End Of The Day And Say I Really Like That Piece Of Work, Or That Piece Of Work Sucked. Not, Was That Popular Or Wasn't It Popular?

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We Slit The Catholic Throat, Stoned The Poor On Such Slogans As Wish You Could Hear And Love Is All We Need.

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What I Like Doing Is Writing And Recording And Much More On The, I Guess, The - On That Creative Level. It's Fun Interpreting Songs And All That, But I Wouldn't Like It As A Living.

I Guess, - A Greater Number Of The 26 Or So Albums That I've Made Are Known In Europe Than They Are In America.

I'm Not Actually A Very Keen Performer. I Like Putting Shows Together. I Like Putting Events Together.

If I Hadn't Had My Children, I Would Have Been Discouraged A Lot Quicker. It Would Have Been Much More Easy For Me To Say, "you Know What, Let The Whole Thing Go. Have A Good Time, Because These People, This Place - It's Just Not Worth It." You Know? I Can't Do That Anymore. I Look Into Those Eyes And They Look At Me So Trustingly That I'm Gonna Make Sure That [they're Thinking], "hey, You Did A Good Thing Bringing Me Into The World, Daddy. I'm Going To Have A Great Life!"

I'm Well Past The Age Where I'm Acceptable. You Get To A Certain Age And You Are Forbidden Access. You're Not Going To Get The Kind Of Coverage That You Would Like In Music Magazines, You're Not Going To Get Played On Radio And You're Not Going To Get Played On Television. I Have To Survive On Word Of Mouth.

I'm Not At Ease With The Word "love."

I'm Not Sure Whether It Is Me Changing My Mind, Or Whether I Lie A Lot.

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Style Is About The Choices You Make To Create The Aspects Of Civilization That You Wish To Uphold. I Will Buy A Chair For My House. What Style Of Chair Are You Gonna Buy? Everything We Look At And Choose Is Some Way Of Expressing How We Want To Be Perceived. I Mean, Why Bother Choosing A Chair Because It Looks A Certain Way? Because There's Gonna Be Something About That Chair That Says Something About You.

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The Humanists' Replacement For Religion: Work Really Hard And Somehow You'll Either Save Yourself Or You'll Be Immortal. Of Course, That's A Total Joke, And Our Progress Is Nothing. There May Be Progress In Technology But There's No Ethical Progress Whatsoever.

People Are Always Throwing Things At Me That I've Said And I Say That I Didn't Mean Anything.

You've Got Your Mother In A Whirl, She's Not Sure If Your A Boy Or A Girl.

I Really Floated Around In The '60s, Because I Felt Comfortable With Nothing.

I'm Drawn Between The Light And Dark.

I Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

To Be Taken Seriously About Doing Something Creative And Probably Travel A Lot. That Was My Motivation. I Knew I Was Good, I Knew I Could Write. I Also Knew You Could Get Laid Really Easily.

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When You Think About It, Adolf Hitler Was The First Pop Star.

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This Is A Mad Planet," David Bowie Said In 1971. "it's Doomed To Madness.

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My Particular Thing Is Discovering What Can Be Done With Media And How It Can Be Used. You Can't Draw People Together Like One Big Huge Family, People Don't Want That. They Want Isolation Or A Tribal Thing.

The Media Is Either Our Salvation Or Our Death.

I Ask For So Little.just Fear Me, Love Me, Do As I Say And I Will Be Your Slave

For Me A Chameleon Is Something That Disguises Itself To Look As Much Like Its Environment As Possible. I Always Thought I Did Exactly The Opposite Of That.

People Who Had Been Treated Inhumanly, Not Given A Chance To Secure Any Foot On Any Ladder - And All The Social Mores Were Suddenly Abandoned.

I Heard The News Today, Oh Boy.

I Could Never, Ever Talk To My Father. I Really Loved Him, But We Couldn't Talk About Anything Together. There Was This Really British Thing That Being Even Remotely Emotional Was Absolutely Verboten.

Nothing Prepared Me For Your Smile

I'm A Phallus In Pigtails, And There's Blood On My Nose, And My Tissue Is Rotting Where The Rats Chew My Bones. And My Eye Sockets Empty, See Nothing But Pain, I Keep Having This Brainstorm About Twelve Times A Day.

Radio In England Is Nonexistent. It's Very Bad English Use Of A Media System, Typically English Use.

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Once I've Written Something It Does Tend To Run Away From Me. I Don't Seem To Have Any Part Of It - It's No Longer My Piece Of Writing.

I Have Found Myself Deeply, Deeply Intrigued By The Ska-punk Scene. It's Such An Expressive Form Of Popular Music, It's So Real, It's Got So Much Life: It's The Most Vital Music In The World.

Time May Change Me, But I Can't Trace Time.

There's A Terror In Knowing What The World Is About

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I Think That My Fascination With Clothes Generally Was Motivated By Trying To Create The Characters For The Stage.

Speak In Extremes, It'll Save You Time.

And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go.

Make The Best Of Every Moment. We're Not Evolving. We're Not Going Anywhere.

I'm Not A Natural Performer. I Don't Like Performing Very Much.

If I Put Faith In Medication, If I Can Smile A Crooked Smile, If I Can Talk On Television, If I Can Walk An Empty Mile.

Don't Let Me Hear You Say Life Takes You Nowhere, Angel.

Visions Of Swastikas In My Head, Plans For Everyone. It's In The Whites Of My Eyes.

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Some Make You Sing And Some Make You Scream. One Makes You Wish That You'd Never Been Seen. But There's A Shop On The Corner That's Selling Papier Mache, Making Bullet-proof Faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If You Want It, Boys, Get It Here, Thing.

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