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[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.

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[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.

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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.

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I Haven't Changed My Views Much Since I Was About 12, Really, I've Just Got A 12-year-old Mentality.when I Was In School I Had A Brother Who Was Into Kerouac And He Gave Me On The Road To Read When I Was 12 Years Old. That's Still Been A Big Influence.

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

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.

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.

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I Was Studying Tibetan Buddhism When I Was Quite Young, Again Influenced By Kerouac.

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

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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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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.

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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 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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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I Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A Lot Of People Provide Me With Quotes. They Suggest All Kinds Of Things To Say And I Do, Really, Because I'm Not Very Hip At All.

I'm Not A Prophet Or A Stone Aged Man, Just A Mortal With Potential Of A Superman. I'm Living On.

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.

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My Father Worked For A Children's Home Called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're A Charity.

Trust Nothing But Your Own Experience.

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.

No More Free Steps To Heaven.

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

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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.

It Would Be Positively Boring If Minds Were In Tune.

Style Is About The Choices You Make To Create The Aspects Of Civilization That You Wish To Uphold.

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

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.

The Moment You Know You Know You Know.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I Heard The News Today, Oh Boy.

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

I've Been Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Secret Thinker Sometimes Listening Aloud.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am.

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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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.

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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.

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.

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 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.

There's Something About The Style Of Living In The Country That They Feel, "this Is What Represents Me." So Style Is About The Philosophy Of How We Create Our Civilization.

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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