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Rock Has Always Been The Devil's Music... I Believe That Rock & Roll Is Dangerous... I Feel That We're Only Heralding Something Even Darker Than Ourselves.

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Rock Has Always Been The Devil's Music... I Believe That Rock & Roll Is Dangerous... I Feel That We're Only Heralding Something Even Darker Than Ourselves.

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The Internet Is Merely A New Means Of Communication, That's All It Is. It Serves The Purpose Of Getting Information, Which It Is Fantastic At. I Mean, I Live By The Internet In Terms Of Research And It's Incredible - There's Nothing That You Can't Find Out About. It's Not Stopped Me Going To Bookshops But I Must Say That I Don't Go Into As Many Because Any Book I Want.

Some People Are Marching Together And Some On Their Own. Others Are Running, The Smaller Ones Crawl. But Some Sit In Silence.

Always Drawn To The Theatric, Bowie Also Performed In Stage Productions Of "the Elephant Man" And Just Recently Collaborated On "lazarus," An Off-broadway Musical That's A Sequel To His 1976 Role In The Film "the Man Who Fell To Earth."

When You Are An Artist You Can Turn Your Hand To Anything, In Any Style. Once You Have The Tools Then All The Artforms Are The Same In The End.

However, There's No Theme Or Concept Behind Heathen, Just A Number Of Songs But Somehow There Is A Thread That Runs Through It That Is Quite As Strong As Any Of My Thematic Type Albums.

I Probably Also Wanted To Be Black At That Particular Time [ 9 Years Old] As Well.

I Kind Of Miss That "becoming" Stage, As Most Times You Really Don't Know What's Around The Corner. Now, Of Course, I've Kind Of Knocked On The Door And Heard A Muffled Answer. Nevertheless, I Still Don't Know What The Voice Is Saying, Or Even What Language It's In.

I Guess A Certain Contingent Of The Musicians In London At The Beginning Of The '70s Were Fed Up With Denim And The Hippies. And I Think We Kind Of Wanted To Go Somewhere Else.

There's A Taste In My Mouth And It's No Taste At All.

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It Took Me A Long Time To Reach The Bottom And It Went Through Various Stages. I Went From Drugs Into An Alcohol Stage. For A While, One Feels, "ah, I've Kicked Drugs," But What I Discovered Was I Had Another Addiction Instead.

Some Of Us, I Think, Us Small, Pompous Arty Ones Probably Read Too Much George Steiner And Kind Of Got The Idea That We Were Entering To This Kind Of Post-culture Age And That We'd Better Do Something Postmodernist - Quickly, Before Somebody Else Did.

I Think That We Have Created A New Kind Of Person In A Way. We Have Created A Child Who Will Be So Exposed To The Media That He Will Be Lost To His Parents By The Time He Is 12.

Music Itself Is Going To Become Like Running Water Or Electricity. So It's Like, Just Take Advantage Of These Last Few Years Because None Of This Is Ever Going To Happen Again. You'd Better Be Prepared For Doing A Lot Of Touring Because That's Really The Only Unique Situation That's Going To Be Left.

I Suspect That Dreams Are An Integral Part Of Existence, With Far More Use For Us Than We've Made Of Them...the Fine Line Between The Dream State And Reality Is At Times, For Me, Quite Grey.

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

All Art Is Unstable. Its Meaning Is Not Necessarily That Implied By The Author. There Is No Authoritative Voice. There Are Only Multiple Readings.

It's Not The Side Effects Of The Cocaine. . . . I'm Thinking That It Must Be Love.

And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go.

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

When I Was 9 Years Old, I Wanted To Be The Baritone Sax Player In The Little Richard Band.

The Only Art I'll Ever Study Is Stuff I Can Steal From.

We See Each Other [ With Iman Abdulmajid] A Lot. I Couldn't Stand To Be Separated 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'm Not At Ease With The Word "love."

At No Point Did I Ever Doubt I Would Be As Near As Anybody Could Be To England's Elvis Presley. Even From Eight Or Nine Years Old, I Thought, Well, I'll Be The Greatest Rock Star In England. I Just Made Up My Mind.

People Don't Get A Chance To Think, "why Am I A Consumer?" Because The Decisions Come At Them So Fast And Furiously, They're Not [even] Given Time To Think, I Am A Consumer.

I'll Paint You Moments Of Gold, I'll Spin You Valentine Evenings.

On The Other Hand, What I Like My Music To Do To Me Is Awaken The Ghosts Inside Of Me. Not The Demons, You Understand, But The Ghosts.

I Usually Don't Agree With What I Say Very Much. I'm An Awful Liar.

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

Trying To Tart The Rock Business Up A Bit Is Getting Nearer To What The Kids Themselves Are Like, Because What I Find, If You Want To Talk In The Terms Of Rock, A Lot Depends On Sensationalism And The Kids Are A Lot More Sensational Than The Stars Themselves.

The World That I Inhabit In Reality Is Probably Very Different World Than The One People Expect That I Would Be In. It Is Quite Sedate. It's Far Removed From A Lot Of What They Would Feel To Be The Limousine Traveling Rock Existence, Or Whatever.

I Woke Up One Day And Realized I Was A Closet Hetero

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.

Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Can Hear It Coming.

Turn And Face The Strange.

Illusion I Will Be, For I've Never Been A Sinner.

Church On Time, Makes Me Party.

There's Not Much Point In Getting Any Heavier... There's Too Many Things To Read And Look At.

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.

A Mutual Friend Knew That We Were Both [with Iman Abdulmajid] On Our Own, With Broken Marriages And With Children. We Were Brought To Dinner One Night. . . . It Was Absolutely Instantaneous. I Couldn't Get Her Out Of My Mind . . . Sleepless Nights - Real 18-year-old Stuff.

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.

Tv Has Eaten Up Everything Else, And Warhol Films Are All That Are Left, Which Is Fabulous. Pork Could Become The Next I Love Lucy, The Great American Domestic Comedy. It's About How People Really Live, Not Like Lucy, Who Never Touched Dishwater. It's About People Living And Hustling To Survive.

There Was A Time In America Not Long Ago When Rock 'n' Roll Was Called Race Music, And White Kids Who Wanted To Go See Chuck Berry Were Completely Forbidden.

Hitler Was The First Superstar.

You'd Like To Know Me Well, But I've Got Things Inside My Head That Even I Can't Face.

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It Would Be Positively Boring If Minds Were In Tune.

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I Had To Resign Myself, Many Years Ago, That I'm Not Too Articulate When It Comes To Explaining How I Feel About Things. But My Music Does It For Me, It Really Does.

Rather Than Really Have, Like A Close Relationship To Anything That's Coming Out Today, People Are Just, They've Got It On As Background Music. It's Kind Of The Same Way The Cabdrivers Use Music; It's Very Disposable.

I Realized The Other Day That I've Lived In New York Longer Than I've Lived Anywhere Else. It's Amazing: I Am A New Yorker. It's Strange; I Never Thought I Would Be.

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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!

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I Find It Easier To Write In These Little Vignettes; If I Try To Get Any More Heavy, I Find Myself Out Of My League.

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To Not Be Modest About It, You'll Find That With Only A Couple Of Exceptions, Most Of The Musicians That I've Worked With Have Done Their Best Work By Far With Me.

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

I Don't Live For The Stage. I Don't Live For An Audience.

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I Guess, People Like Myself And Roxy Music That Had A Different Agenda About Taking Up Music.

The Best Djs In The World Know How To Pull In Music From All Over The Place And Make It Work As A Cohesive Whole.

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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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If I Wasn't Going Through A Thing Where I Was Also Being My Characters Offstage, Uh, I'm Much Happier Just Wearing The Most Low-profile Things That I Can Come Up With Just So I Can Get Down The Street.

I Think Lindsay Kemp Really Introduced Me To The Work Of Jean Genet, And Through That, I Kind Of Kept Re-educating Myself About Other Prose Writers And Poets.

The Younger People Get Into The Lyrics In A Different Way; There's Much More Of A Tactile Understanding, Which Is The Way I Prefer It.

[while] My Life Started Taking On All The Problems Of Addiction. So That Took Me Off Into An Area Where Relationships Were Absolutely Impossible To Handle On Any Real Level. . . . Even Communicating With Other People Was Impossible.

It Is Amazing How A New Child Can Refocus One's Direction Seconds After Its Birth. Everything Falls Into A Feeling Of 'rightness'.

There's Just Some Dysfunctionalism With Artists. There Are Good Things And Bad Things About Being An Artist, And The Good Thing Is, Sometimes You Get An Inside Line On What's Really Happening. You Develop These Strange Antennae That Clue You In To What's Really Going On.

We Were Terribly Excited, And I Think We Took It On Our Shoulders That We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971. That Was The Idea. And We Wanted To Just Blast Everything In The Past, Rather Like The Vorticists Did At The Beginning Of The Century In The Britain Or The Dadaists Did Europe, You Know. It Was The Same Sensibility Of Everything Is Rubbish, And All Rubbish Is Wonderful.

I Don't Know Where I'm Going From Here, But I Promise It Won't Be Boring.

I Have A Very Strong Paternal Streak. I'm A Born Father...i Get Such Enjoyment Out Of Being With Children. Now They Are Enjoyable Little Things. They Really Are. I Like Their Kind Of Humor. You Can Stuff All Your Punk Bands, Give Me Three Children Instead.

[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.

Tony Visconti And I Had Been Wanting To Work Together Again For A Few Years Now. Both Of Us Had Fairly Large Commitments And For A Long Time We Couldn't See A Space In Which We Could Get Anything Together.

When The Musical Keyboard Was Created In The 1970's, You Had Electronic Geeks That Had No Background In Music Created These Devises And Gave Them To Musicians That Had No Background In Electronics. The Result Was Some Of The Wierd Sounds That Came Out In The '70s.

I Was Always Accused Of Being Cold And Unfeeling. It Was Because I Was Intimidated About Touching People.

I'm Wary Of The Word Glam Because I Think That Became The All-inclusive Term With For Any Bloke With Lipstick On, Which Is Fine, You Know, And That's What It Is When It Comes Down To The Public Level.

I'm Always Amazed That People Take What I Say Seriously. I Don't Even Take What I Am Seriously.

Am I Machiavellian? I Don't Think I'm Quite The Mastermind People Would Have Me Be. Everything I Do Tends To Be Very Successful And It May Have Something To Do With The Fact That I'm Very Good, Not Necessarily That I Manipulate. But That Doesn't Often Occur To People.

Syd Barrett Of Pink Floyd Was The First Person In Rock I Had Seen With Makeup On. He Wore Black Nail Polish And Lots Of Mascara And Black Eye Shadow, And He Was So Mysterious. It Was This Androgynous Thing I Found Absolutely Fascinating.

Making Love With His Ego.

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

Strung Out On Lasers And Slash Back Blazers.

I'm Afraid Of Americans.

I Didn't Say That Wearing A Glamorization Of The Rock Artist Was Any Truer From The Other Thing.

Everything We Look At And Choose Is Some Way Of Expressing How We Want To Be Perceived.

I Think Much Has Been Made Of This Alter Ego Business. I Mean, I Actually Stopped Creating Characters In 1975 - For Albums, Anyway.

The Underground Went Really Underground. Grand Funk, And All These People Man Are The Moderate's Choice Of Music. Underground Is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These People Scare The Hell Out Of Most Freaks. They Laugh At Yoko Ono, But It's The Whole Cliché.

And It's Always The Same Kind Of Artist, I Think, Who Has More Enjoyment Being Slightly On The Outside Of Things, Who Doesn't Want To Be Sucked Into The Tyranny Of The Mainstream. Because Once You Get Sucked Into That, You're Dead As An Artist.

You Write Down A Paragraph Or Two Describing Several Different Subjects Creating A Kind Of Story Ingredients-list, I Suppose, And Then Cut The Sentences Into Four Or Five-word Sections; Mix Em Up And Reconnect Them. You Can Get Some Pretty Interesting Idea Combinations Like This. You Can Use Them As Is Or, If You Have A Craven Need To Not Lose Control, Bounce Off These Ideas And Write Whole New Sections.

I Think Music Should Be Tarted Up, Made Into A Prostitute, A Parody Of Itself. It Should Be The Clown, The Pierrot Medium.

Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am.

Put On Your Red Shoes, And Dance The Blues.

Everywhere I Looked, Demons Of The Future [were] On The Battlegrounds Of One’s Emotional Plane.

David Bowie Emerged As A Rock Star In The Late '60s. And As Ken Tucker Wrote, "in The Face Of The Hippy Era's Sincerity, Intimacy And Generosity, Bowie Presented Irony, Distance And Self-absorption. His Song 'changes' Announced The Arrival Of A New Counterculture," Unquote.

It Would Be My Guess That Madonna Is Not A Very Happy Woman. From My Own Experience, Having Gone Through Persona Changes Like That, That Kind Of Clawing Need To Be The Center Of Attention Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be.

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

I Felt I Really Wanted To Back Off From Music Completely And Just Work Within The Visual Arts In Some Way. I Started Painting Quite Passionately At That Time.

You Go Through Stages Where You Wonder Whether You Are Christ, Or Just Looking For Him.

I Have Absolutely No Interest In Rock And Roll. I'm Just Being David Bowie. Mick Jagger Is Rock And Roll. I Mean, I Go Out And My Music Is Roughly The Format Of Rock And Roll, I Use The Chord Changes Of Rock And Roll, But I Don't Feel I'm A Rock And Roll Artist. I'd Be A Terrible Rock Artist, Absolutely Ghastly.

In Order To Look Special Wearing The Chancy Unique; It Must Be Worn With Your Persona, And If The Two Don't Blend, Then The Look Becomes Pear-shaped.

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

I'm A Thinker Not A Talker.

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

Sits Like A Man, But Smiles Like A Reptile.

I Think Fame Itself Is Not A Rewarding Thing. The Most You Can Say Is That It Gets You A Seat In Restaurants.

I Got A Bad Migraine That Lasted 3 Years, And The Pills I Took Made By Fingers Disappear.

Actually, My Ambition At Eight Or Nine Years Old Was To Be One Of Little Richard's Sax Players, And That's When I Got My First Saxophone, A Selmer. It Was A Strange Bakelite Material - That Creamy Plastic With All The Gold Keys On It. I Had To Get A Job As A Butcher's Delivery Boy To Start Paying For It.

Pop Stars Are Capable Of Growing Old. Mick Jagger At 50 Will Be Marvelous - A Battered Old Roue - I Can Just See Him. An Aging Rock Star Doesn't Have To Opt Out Life. When I'm 50, I'll Prove It.

[david] Bowie's Last Album "blackstar" Featured Him Backed By A Jazz Quartet.

Of Course, We Found Out Later Syd Barrett Had Mental Problems. But There Was Something So Otherworldly About Him. He Was Hovering, Like, Six Inches Above The Ground.

I'm Still Younger Than Jagger... Most People Are.

I'll Place My Love Beneath The Stars.

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.

I've Made Over 25 Studio Albums, And I Think Probably I've Made Two Real Stinkers In My Time, And Some Not-bad Albums, And Some Really Good Albums. I'm Proud Of What I've Done. In Fact It's Been A Good Ride.

I Think It's Rather A Waste Of Time Endlessly Singing The Same Songs Every Night For A Year, And It's Just Not What I Want To Do.

I Guess Ziggy Would Have Been The Perfect Vehicle To Have Done With.

The People Who Don't Know So Much About Me Regard Me More Sexually.

I Feel That What I Do Is Always Contemporary With The Society I'm Living In... If I Wanted To Explain Myself, That's How I'd Explain Myself: That I'm A Diarist.

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

I Never Heard So Many Kids Talk About Just Doing Anything To Be Famous. I Mean, Yeah, Fame Is Part Of The Deal When You're A Kid And You Think, I Wanna Go Into Music, But Everybody That I Knew Was Really Doing It Because Of Their Love For It. I Don't See So Much Of That Anymore.

I Believe That I Often Bring Out The Best In Somebody's Talents.

You Can't Put Down Anybody. You Can Just Try And Understand. The Emphasis Shouldn't Be On Revolution, It Should Be On Communication. Because It's Just Going To Get More Uptight. The More The Revolution Goes On, And There Will Be A Civil War Sooner Or Later.

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.

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

I Wanted To Rewrite How Rock Music Was Perceived.

It's True - I Am A Bisexual. But I Can't Deny That I've Used That Fact Very Well. I Suppose It's The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

Having Not Really Written Any Generational Songs - I Think Maybe Two Or Three Of The Songs That I've Ever Written Have Any Bearing On The Age Of The Listener. My Stuff Tends To Be Far More Concerned With The Spiritual And With Subjects Like Isolation And Being Miserable.

We Can't Stop Trying Til We Break Up Our Minds, Til The Sun Drips Blood On The Seedy Young Knight.

One Day In Berlin ... Eno Came Running In And Said, 'i Have Heard The Sound Of The Future.' ... He Puts On 'i Feel Love', By Donna Summer ... He Said, 'this Is It, Look No Further. This Single Is Going To Change The Sound Of Club Music For The Next Fifteen Years.' Which Was More Or Less Right.

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.

I'm Really Quite Bipolar, And The Depressed Times, When Everything Felt Like Night, Sometimes You Get To Such A Low Point That You Physically Beat At It Until It Bleeds - As You Would Say - Bleeds Till Sunshine.

Nature Boy There Was A Boy A Very Strange Enchanted Boy They Say He Wandered Very Far, Very Far Over Land And Sea A Little Shy And Sad Of Eye But Very Wise Was He And Then One Day A Magic Day He Passed My Way And While We Spoke Of Many Things, Fools And Kings This He Said To Me “the Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn Is Just To Love And Be Loved In Return

I Think A Lot Of That Album ["tonight" ] Is Still Very Good . . . The Songs, But I Think I Was Indifferent To The Arrangements.

I've Been Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline.

When We Decided To Marry, We Had Two Ceremonies - One Was More Bureaucratic For The Sake Of The Swiss Authorities,then A Church Service In Florence, And I Wrote The Music For The Church Service. The Challenge In That Was That Iman's [abdulmajid] Family Are Muslim And Mine Are Protestant. I Had To Be Careful About The Prayers That We Chose And The Music I Wrote Because I Didn't Want To Offend Either Side.

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.

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

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

I Liked Rock Music, I Kind Of Moved Into That Sphere, Somehow Thinking That Somewhere Along The Line I'd Be Able To Put The Two Together. And I Suppose I Very Nearly Did With The Ziggy Character.

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

One Day I Realized 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. That's When You Can Begin Really Looking For A Relationship. When You Can Appreciate The Whole Concept Of Giving To Someone, Not Just Taking.

Fame, What You Like Is In The Limo. Fame, What You Get Is No Tomorrow.

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.

Songwriting As An Art Is A Bit Archaic Now. Just Writing A Song Is Not Good Enough.

When I'm Stuck For A Closing To A Lyric, I Will Drag Out My Last Resort: Overwhelming Illogic.

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.

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

I Thought That I Could Do Some Kind Of Vehicle Involving Rock Musicals And Presenting Rock And Characters And Storyline In A Completely Different Fashion.

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

Secret Thinker Sometimes Listening Aloud.

I'll Stick With You Baby For A Thousand Years.

I'm Not Sure That An Art Career Would Have Any Benefit For Me; I'm Not Sure It's What I Want. I Don't Think I Want To Be A Designer-rock Artist.

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'm Very Shy. That's Probably One Of The Reasons I Got So Heavily Into Drugs.

I'm Rather Kind Of Old School, Thinking That When An Artist Does His Work It's No Longer His.

I Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

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

For Here Am I Sitting In A Tin Can, Far Above The World. Planet Earth Is Blue, And There's Nothing I Can Do.

It Was Fun To Be Clever.

Rebel, Rebel, You've Torn Your Dress. Rebel, Rebel, Your Face Is A Mess. Rebel, Rebel, How Could They Know? Hot Tramp, I Love You So.

What I Do Is I Write Mainly About Very Personal And Rather Lonely Feelings, And I Explore Them In A Different Way Each Time. You Know, What I Do Is Not Terribly Intellectual. I'm A Pop Singer For Christ's Sake. As A Person, I'm Fairly Uncomplicated.

Lou Reed Is The Most Important Definitive Writer In Modern Rock. Not Because Of The Stuff That He Does, But The Direction That He Will Take It.

I Never Really Had Much Of An Interest In Fashion.

I'm In Awe Of The Universe, But I Don't Necessarily Believe There's An Intelligence Or Agent Behind It. I Do Have A Passion For The Visual In Religious Rituals, Though, Even Though They May Be Completely Empty And Bereft Of Substance. The Incense Is Powerful And Provocative, Whether Buddhist Or Catholic.

My Mother Was A Housewife. Both From - Well, My Father Was From A Farming Family, Agricultural Family In The North Of England. And My Mother Came From A Very Working Class.

I'm Regarded Quite Asexually By A Lot Of People. And The People That Understand Me The Best Are Nearer To What I Understand About Me.

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

I Spent So Much Time In My Bedroom. It Really Was My Entire World. I Had Books Up There, My Music Up There, My Record Player. Going From My World Upstairs Out Onto The Street, I Had To Pass Through This No-man's-land Of The Living Room, You Know, And Out The Front Hall.

But I've Got To Think Of Myself As The Luckiest Guy. Robert Johnson Only Had One Album's Worth Of Work As His Legacy. That's All That Life Allowed Him.

A Lot Of People That I Know Are Bugged With The Idea That They Have Got To Have An Audience, Or They Have Got To Be Liked. I Think The More That You Fall Into That Trap It Makes Your Own Life Harder To Come To Terms With, Because An Audience Appreciation Is Only Going To Be Periodic At The Best Of Times.

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

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