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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.

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

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Hitler Was The First Superstar.

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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.

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.

You Can Begin Really Looking For A Relationship . . . When You Can (appreciate) The Whole Concept Of Giving To Someone, Not Just Taking.

They [people] Mistake Fashion For Style.

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

A Career Of Nearly 40 Years, Is Not Very Long.

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.

It Was Fun To Be Clever.

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

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

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.

I'm Bemused By The Whole Robbie Williams Aspect Of British Pop. Posh Spice? It All Looks Like Cruise Ship Entertainment To Me.

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

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

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

I Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

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.

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

Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am.

Heathenism Is A State Of Mind. You Can Take It That I'm Referring To One Who Does Not See His World. He Has No Mental Light. He Destroys Almost Unwittingly. He Cannot Feel Any Gods Presence In His Life. He Is The 21st Century Man.

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

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.

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

I Don't Like Talk And I Don't Like Talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's What She Always Said, 'ma Barker Doesn't Like Talk And She Doesn't Like Talkers.' She Just Sat There With Her Gun.

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.

I Am A Moderately Good Singer. I Am Not A Great Singer But I Can Interpret A Song, Which I Don't Think Is Quite The Same As Singing It.

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I'm Drawn Between The Light And Dark.

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.

Critics I Don't Understand. They Get Too Intellectual. They're Not Very Well-versed In Street Talk; It Takes Them Longer To Say It. So They Have To Do It In Dictionaries And They Take Longer To Say It.

I've Been Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline.

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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.

I Don't Make Changes To Confuse Anyone. I'm Just Searching. That's What Causes Me To Change. I'm Just Searching For Myself.

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Money Goes To Money Heaven, Body Goes To Body Hell.

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.

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

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

I Don't Expect The Human Race To Progress In Too Many Areas. However, Having A Child With An Ear Infection Makes One Hugely Grateful For Antibiotics.

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

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I Went Mainstream In A Major Way With The Song "let's Dance." And What I Found I Had Done Was Put A Box Around Myself. It Was Very Hard For People To See Me As Anything Other Than The Person In The Suit Who Did "let's Dance," And It Was Driving Me Mad - Because It Took All My Passion For Experimenting Away.

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Sexuality And Where It Is Going Is An Extraordinary Question, For I Don't See It Going Anywhere. It Is With Me, And That's It.

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

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

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

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

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

The Sun Machine Is Coming Down, And We're Gonna Have A Party.

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 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'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.

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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.

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

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 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.

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.

Touring With Iggy Pop Was Something To Do. It Was Good Fun. I Got Drunk A Lot.

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.

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.

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

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

Strung Out On Lasers And Slash Back Blazers.

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.

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!"

Look Up Here, I'm In Heaven.

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.

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.

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

Strangely, Some Songs You Really Don't Want To Write.

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

She's A Total Bam Bam.

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.

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.

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

I Think That The History Of Rock Could Be Recycled In A Different Way And Brought Back Into Focus Without The Luggage That Comes Along With It.

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.

People Will Keep The Tv On Even If A Show Is On That They Hate - Because, Unfortunately, They've Been Programmed To Do That.

Pixies And Sonic Youth Were So Important To The Eighties.

People Got Extremely Comfortable With Being Able To Turn On Their Television And See Mtv Say, "this Guy's Hot You Should Buy This Record."

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

The Character Thing Really Is Sort Of, For Me, Personally, Rather Ancient History.

Ancient History

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

Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Can Hear It Coming.

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

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

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

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

You Can't Go On Stage And Live - It's False All The Way. I Can't Stand The Premise Of Going Out In Jeans And A Guitar And Looking As Real As You Can In Front Of 18,000 People. I Mean, It's Not Normal!

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

I Never Could Get Over The Fact That The Pixies Formed, Worked And Separated Without America Taking Them To Its Heart Or Even Recognizing Their Existence For The Most Part.

Once You Lose That Sense Of Wonder At Being Alive, You're Pretty Much On The Way Out.

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

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Every Time I've Made A Radical Change It's Helped Me Feel Buoyant As An Artist

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

Feeling So Gay, Feeling So Gay.

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 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.

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

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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.

I've Learned To Relax And Be My Present Age And My Present Position. I Feel Comfortable On My Mid-thirties. It Doesn't Seem Such An Alien Place To Be.

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

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.

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

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

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There, In The Chords And Melodies, Is Everything I Want To Say. The Words Just Jolly It Along. It's Always Been My Way Of Expressing What For Me Is Inexpressible By Any Other Means.

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.

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

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

Secret Thinker Sometimes Listening Aloud.

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.

The End Comes When The Infinites Arrive.

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.

Church On Time, Makes Me Party.

Time Takes A Cigarette, Puts It In Your Mouth.

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.

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.

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.

Falling In Love

Questioning My Spiritual Life Has Always Been Germane To What I Was Writing. Always. It's Because I'm Not Quite An Atheist And It Worries Me. There's That Little Bit That Holds On: 'well, I'm Almost An Atheist. Give Me A Couple Of Months.'

Since The Departure Of Good Old-fashioned Entertainers The Re-emergence Of Somebody Who Wants To Be An Entertainer Has Unfortunately Become A Synonym For Camp. I Don't Think I'm Camper Than Any Other Person Who Felt At Home On Stage, And Felt More At Home On Stage Than He Did Offstage.

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

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.

It Would Be Positively Boring If Minds Were In Tune.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I Never Really Got The Book Together For The Thing, So I Had All The Songs And The Characters. But By The Time We'd Gotten It On The Road And I'd Been Doing It For 18 Months, Oh God, I Couldn't Wait To Move On To Something Else.

Sits Like A Man, But Smiles Like A Reptile.

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.

I Always Write Well In New York.

I Never Really Had Much Of An Interest In Fashion.

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.

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.

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.

I Think Every Time I Said, "i'm Working With Nile [rodgers]," The Reaction Was, "oh, Great. I Love 'let's Dance.' " I Think That's Pretty Expected. I'm Not Sure Nile And I Went In Consciously Not To Make "let's Dance." We Just Wanted To Work Together Again.

Working Together

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.

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You Would Think That A Rock Star Being Married To A Super-model Would Be One Of The Greatest Things In The World. It Is.

I Surrounded Myself With People Who Indulged My Ego. They Treated Me As Though I Was Ziggy Stardust Or One Of My Characters, Never Realising That David Jones Might Be Behind It.

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.

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

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.

No More Free Steps To Heaven.

I Don't Have Stylistic Loyalty. That's Why People Perceive Me Changing All The Time. But There Is A Real Continuity In My Subject Matter. As An Artist Of Artifice, I Do Believe I Have More Integrity Than Any One Of My Contemporaries.

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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