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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.

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

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

I Never Really Had Much Of An Interest In Fashion.

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

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

No More Free Steps To Heaven.

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

She's A Total Bam Bam.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Never Bored, So I'll Never Get Old

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

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

I Think The First Song I Ever Wrote ... Was Called "can't Help Thinking About Me." That's An Illuminating Little Piece, Isn't It?

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.

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.

Put On Your Red Shoes, And Dance The Blues.

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 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.

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.

Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am.

A Song Has To Take On Character, Shape, Body And Influence People To An Extent That They Use It For Their Own Devices. It Must Affect Them Not Just As A Song, But As A Lifestyle. The Rock Stars Have Assimilated All Kinds Of Philosophies, Styles, Histories, Writings, And They Throw Out What They Have Gleaned From That.

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 Always Write Well In New York.

Oooh, Fashion, We Are The Goon Squad And Were Coming To Town, Beep Beep.

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.

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.

I'm Drawn Between The Light And Dark.

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

Feeling So Gay, Feeling So Gay.

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

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 Find Only Freedom In The Realms Of Eccentricity.

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.

I've Never Responded Well To Entrenched Negative Thinking.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The End Comes When The Infinites Arrive.

I Think The First Experience Scared The Hell Out Of Me. Within Months Of My Initial Marriage [on Angela Bowie], I Realized I Had Done A Really Naive And Rather Stupid Thing. . . . I Don't Think Either Of Us Had Any Real Resolve About Being Together. The Result Was It Made Me Wary Of Relationships.

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

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!

The Only Real Failure Is Trying To Second-guess The Taste Of An Audience. Nothing Comes Out Of That Except A Kind Of Inward Humiliation.

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

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!

Time Takes A Cigarette, Puts It In Your Mouth.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I Really Believe That Bob Dylan And Others Have Speeded Up The Changes. Pacifism Has Found A Voice At Last.

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

Ziggy Played Guitar, Jamming Good With Weird And Gilly.

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.

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.

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.

[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'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.

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.

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.

I Made A More Mature Approach To Industrial Music.

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

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.

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.

Look Up Here, I'm In Heaven.

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 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.

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.

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!"

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.

Mine Is Really - Ziggy Stardust, Characters, "let's Dance." That's Me In The American.

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.

I Think Getting Married And Then Running Away For 10 Months Would Be An Absolute Disaster.

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

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 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.

If You Come From Art, You'll Always Be Art.

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

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

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

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.

I Am A D.j., I Am What I Play.

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

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

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.

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

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

Pixies And Sonic Youth Were So Important To The Eighties.

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.

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

The Moment You Know You Know You Know.

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

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.

Let The Children Use It, Let The Children Lose It, Let All The Children Boogie.

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

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

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.

I Can't Keep My Fingers Out Of Any Pies.

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.

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

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

Making Love With His Ego.

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

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.

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.

Sits Like A Man, But Smiles Like A Reptile.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Truth Is Of Course Is That There Is No Journey. We Are Arriving And Departing All At The Same Time.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

If It Works, It's Out Of Date.

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

Someday, I'm Gonna Write A Poem In A Letter; Someday, I'm Gonna Get That Faculty Together.

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

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 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.

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.

Characterization

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.

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.

Fame Puts You There Where Things Are Hollow.

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.

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

I Can Ask For Cigarettes In Every Language

Ground Control To Major Tom.

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.

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'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.

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!

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.

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 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 Still Younger Than Jagger... Most People Are.

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 Hate Albums That Are Really Happy. When I Am Really Happy, I Don't Like To Hear Happy Albums, And When I Am Really Sad I Don't Wanna Hear Happy Albums... And I Tend To Gravitate Towards The Lonely And Isolated Anyway When I Write.

In My Madness I See Your Face In Mine.

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

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

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

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.

Nothing Prepared Me For Your Smile

It Would Be Positively Boring If Minds Were In Tune.

They [people] Mistake Fashion For Style.

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

It Was Fun To Be Clever.

On "tonight" I Think I Was Torn Dreadfully Between Writing What I Wanted To Write, But Keeping It In A Style That Would Follow Up What I Had Just Done. That's Where I Feel I Was Untrue To Myself As An Artist . . . That Album And, To A Lesser Extent, "never Let Me Down."

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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