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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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Style Is About The

David Bowie

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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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Funk, I Don't Think I Have Anything To Do With Funk. I've Never Considered Myself Funky.

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.

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.

She's A Total Bam Bam.

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

I Think Hip-hop Is Actually One Of The Most Challenging Things That's Happened In Music In A Long Time.

Bully For You, Chilly For Me, Got To Get A Raincheck On Pain.

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.

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.

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!

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

I'll Ruin Everything You Are, I'll Give You Television.

There Seem To Be A Lot Of Black Artists Making Very Good Videos That I'm Surprised Aren't Being Used On Mtv.

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.

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

Ground Control To Major Tom.

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.

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?

The End Of The Day

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.

The Only Time That I've Adopted Characterization Again Since That Point, For My Own Albums, Has Been An Album Called "outside" That I Did With Brian Eno.

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

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.

I Wanted To Rewrite How Rock Music Was Perceived.

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

I Met My Wife Because We Were Both Going Out With The Same Guy.

Confront A Corpse At Least Once. The Absolute Absence Of Life Is The Most Disturbing And Challenging Confrontation You Will Ever Have.

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.

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.

Nothing Prepared Me For Your Smile

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.

I Think I Am A Lot More Relaxed About What I Have Or Haven't Done.

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.

I Always Had A Repulsive Sort Of Need To Be Something More Than Human.

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.

Capitalism Can Be Alright, I Mean Karl Marx Didn't Live To See What Roosevelt Did With That Depression. He Pulled Everybody Out Of That Depression And Everybody Hated Franklin Roosevelt. He Got Into Office Four Times. One After The Other, With Everybody Saying, He Can't Get In Again. Everybody Voted For Roosevelt Four Times And He Did A Hell Of A Lot.

Look Up Here, I'm In Heaven.

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

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

I Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

I Suppose For Me As An Artist It Wasn't Always Just About Expressing My Work; I Really Wanted, More Than Anything Else, To Contribute In Some Way To The Culture That I Was Living In. It Just Seemed Like A Challenge To Move It A Little Bit Towards The Way I Thought It Might Be Interesting To Go.

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

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Hitler Was The First Superstar.

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.

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Frankly, I Mean, Sometimes The Interpretations I've Seen On Some Of The Songs That I've Written Are A Lot More Interesting Than The Input That I Put In.

Trust Nothing But Your Own Experience.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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There's A Starman Waiting In The Sky, He'd Like To Come And Meet Us, But He Thinks He'd Blow Our Minds.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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.

Since Early Middle Ages When People Generally Taking Away The Barbarity Of Their Like, Were Pretty Content. Although It Was All An Illicit Contentment, What With The Slave Systems All Over The World, In England Especially, The Peasants And The Master, Etc. People Were Incredibly Content.

If I Never Wake Again, I Certainly Will Have Lived While I Was Alive.

If It Works, It's Out Of Date.

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

We Could Steal Time, Just For One Day We Can Be Heroes, For Ever And Ever What D'you Say?

It's Almost A Social Grace To Get Into The Art World, And I'm Very Wary Of It. Art Was Good In Berlin In The Late '70s - There Was A Lot More Guts To Art When The Neo-expressionists Were Starting Up; It Was Real Slapdash; It Has Real Heart To It - But It Seems So Cold And Heartless In America. It's A Buyer's Market.

I Had Enormous Self-image, Problems And Very Low Self-esteem, Which I Hid Behind Obsessive Writing And Performing. It's Exactly What I Do Now Except I Enjoy It Now. I'm Not Driven Like I Was In My Twenties. I Was Driven To Get Through Life Very Quickly.

I Turned Myself To Face Me, But I've Never Caught A Glimpse Of How The Others Must See The Faker.

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!

Time Takes A Cigarette, Puts It In Your Mouth.

Sits Like A Man, But Smiles Like A Reptile.

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

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.

There's A Thing That Just As You Go To Sleep, If You Keep Your Elbows Elevated That You Will Never Go Below The Dream Stage. And I've Used That Quite A Lot And It Keeps Me Dreaming Much Longer Than If I Just Relaxed.

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.

They're The Salt Of The Earth, Those Girls. They Don't Sit Each Night And Compare Notes On Groups, Criticising Lyrics, Asking If It's Valid. They Just Play The Record... Yeah, And Maybe They Dance. I Love Them. I Love Them Dearly

It Was Fun To Be Clever.

I Was Told That It Was Cool To Fall In Love, And That Period Was Nothing Like That To Me. I Gave Too Much Of My Time And Energy To Another Person And They Did The Same To Me And We Started Burning Out Against Each Other. And That Is What Is Termed Love.

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I Really Wanted To Do, More Than Anything Else, Up Until I Was Around 16, 17, Was Write Musicals.

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.

No More Free Steps To Heaven.

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

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.

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.

Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Can Hear It Coming.

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

I'd Rather Stay Here With All The Madmen Than Perish With The Sadmen Roaming Free.

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.

Hear This Robert Zimmerman, I Wrote A Song For You, About A Strange Young Man Called Dylan With A Voice Like Sand And Glue.

For Here, Am I Sitting In A Tin Can, Far Above The World. Planet Earth Is Blue, And There's Nothing I Can Do... Though I'm Past One Hundred Thousand Miles, I'm Feeling Very Still - And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go. Tell My Wife I Love Her Very Much.

It Would Be Positively Boring If Minds Were In Tune.

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

I'm Afraid Of Americans.

I Think I Quite Desperately Wanted To Have That Kind Of Special Companionship [like Marriage ] . . . A Special Relationship, Yet I Hid From It For Many, Many Years And Pretended To Be Cynical About It.

And You, You Can Be Mean And I, I'll Drink All The Time 'cause We're Lovers, And That Is A Fact Yes We're Lovers, And That Is That

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.

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 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.

If You Feel Safe In The Area You’re Working In, You’re Not Working In The Right Area. Always Go A Little Further Into The Water Than You Feel You’re Capable Of Being In. Go A Little Bit Out Of Your Depth. And When You Don’t Feel That Your Feet Are Quite Touching The Bottom, You’re Just About In The Right Place To Do Something Exciting.

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

Fame Can Take Interesting Men And Thrust Mediocrity Upon Them.

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'm Quite Certain That The Audience That I've Got For My Stuff Don't Listen To The Lyrics.

I Once Asked [john] Lennon What He Thought Of What I Do. He Said 'it's Great, But Its Just Rock And Roll With Lipstick On'.

I Don't Like To Read Things That People Write About Me. I'd Rather Read What Kids Have To Say About Me, Because It's Not Their Profession To Do That.

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

In Fact, In Europe, I'm More Kind Of This Bloke What Writes Lots Of Stuff.

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.

Ironically, Style Doesn't Come Even Closely Related To Fashion. It's Got Nothing To Do [with Clothes].

I Would Like To Believe That People Knew What They Were Fighting For And Why They Wanted A Revolution, And Exactly What It Was Within That They Didn't Like.

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.

I Think Mick Jagger Would Be Astounded And Amazed If He Realized That To Many People He Is Not A Sex Symbol, But A Mother Image.

My Son's Full Real Name Is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As A Toddler He Was Called By His Second Name Zowie. But It Was Such An Identifiable Name During The Seventies That If I Called Him Loudly In Public Places, Everyone Would Turn To Stare, So I Started Calling Him Joey To Take The Pressure Off. It Has The Same Sound And Number Of Syllables As Zowie. And Joe Stuck For Most Of His Childhood. Now He Has Reverted To His Real Name, Duncan. Haywood Was My Father's Name.

Religion Is For People Who Fear Hell, Spirituality Is For People Who Have Been There.

But I'm Pretty Good With Collaborative Thinking. I Work Well With Other People.

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

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

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

That's The Shock: All Cliches Are True. The Years Really Do Speed By. Life Really Is As Short As They Tell You It Is. And There Really Is A God - So Do I Buy That One? If All The Other Cliches Are True... Hell, Don't Pose Me That One.

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.

It Was Like Treading Water All Through The '60s, And When 1970 Kicked In, I Thought "we're Here. Right." God, This Is Exciting. I'm Going To Go For It Now. I Really Felt It Was My Time. Then Marc Bolan Did It First. That Really Pissed Me Off.

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.

It Amazes Me Sometimes That Even Intelligent People Will Analyze A Situation Or Make A Judgement After Only Recognizing The Standard Or Traditional Structure Of A Piece.

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

Love Is Every Type Of Relationship That You Think Of... I'm Sure It Means Relationship, Every Type Of Relationship That You Can Think Of.

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.

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.

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.

And These Children That You Spit On As They Try To Change Their Worlds Are Immune To Your Consultations. They're Quite Aware Of What They're Going Through.

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

It's Much Easier For Me To Say That, The Kind Of Music I Didn't Listen To Was Pretty Much That. I Mean Everything, From Jazz To Classical To Popular. And Tibetan Horns Were A Great Part Of It In 1966, '67.

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

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.

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.

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.

It Is Entirely Possible To Create Something Totally Artificial Within The Realms Of Rock And Roll.

Ziggy Played Guitar, Jamming Good With Weird And Gilly.

I've Always Been Very Chauvinistic, Even In My Boy-obsessed Days. But I Was Always A Gentleman. I Alwaysd Treated My Boys Like Real Ladies. Always Escorted Them Properly And, In Fact, I Suppose If I Were A Lot Older - Like 40 Or 50 - I'd Be A Wonderful Sugar Daddy To Some Little Queen Down In Kensington. I'd Have A Houseboy Named Richard To Order Around.

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

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

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.

In Your Fear, Seek Only Peace. In Your Fear, Seek Only Love.

I'll Place My Love Beneath The Stars.

It Makes Me Sad When I See Artists Who Come Alive When They Go Onstage, Because, Gee, I Really Come Alive When I'm Home.

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

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.

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.

Feeling So Gay, Feeling So Gay.

I'm Looking For Backing For An Unauthorized Auto-biography That I Am Writing. Hopefully, This Will Sell In Such Huge Numbers That I Will Be Able To Sue Myself For An Extraordinary Amount Of Money And Finance The Film Version In Which I Will Play Everybody.

He Took It All Too Far, But Boy Could He Play Guitar.

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.

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

I Rate Morrissey As One Of The Best Lyricists In Britain. For Me, He's Up There With Bryan Ferry.

I Never Really Had Much Of An Interest In Fashion.

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.

Nearly All The Synth Work On Heathen Is Mine And Some Of The Piano.

You Can't Stand Still On One Point For Your Entire Life.

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

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

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

I Don't Believe In Proper Cinema; It Doesn't Have The Strength Of Television. People Having To Go Out To The Cinema Is Really Archaic. I'd Much Rather Sit At Home.

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

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