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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.

I've Been Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline.

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.

If It Works, It's Out Of Date.

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.

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

Sits Like A Man, But Smiles Like A Reptile.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In Fact, Everything I Do Is About The Conceptualizing And Realization Of A Piece Of Work, Whether It's The Recording Or The Performance Side.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm A Born Librarian With A Sex Drive.

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

I'll Place My Love Beneath The Stars.

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.

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

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!

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

In My Madness I See Your Face In Mine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I Was Going Through Those Very Fast Changes, I Think It Was Terribly Important To Me That I Was Seen To Be Inventive. I Think That Was The Characteristic Of My Work That I Wanted People To See.

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I Couldn't Stand To Be Separated With My Wife For Months. It Became Quickly Apparent To Me That I Needed To Find A Balance Between My Absolute Work Obsession And A Private Life That We Could Share Without My Disappearing All The Time.

I'm Not A Natural Performer. I Don't Like Performing Very Much.

She's A Total Bam Bam.

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.

As You Get Older, The Questions Come Down To About Two Or Three. How Long? And What Do I Do With The Time I've Got Left?

It Would Be Positively Boring If Minds Were In Tune.

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 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.

The Moment You Know You Know You Know.

It Was Fun To Be Clever.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm A Thinker Not A Talker.

And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

The Media Is Either Our Salvation Or Our Death.

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."

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

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

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

Put On Your Red Shoes, And Dance The Blues.

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

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

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

I Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Secret Thinker Sometimes Listening Aloud.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sweet Head, Give You Sweet Head.

Trust Nothing But Your Own Experience.

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.

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.

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

I'm Drawn Between The Light And Dark.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

Things Have To Hit For The Moment. That's One Of The Reasons I'm Into Video; The Image Has To Hit Immediately. I Adore Video And The Whole Cutting Up Of It.

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

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.

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

I Could Never, Ever Talk To My Father. I Really Loved Him, But We Couldn't Talk About Anything Together. There Was This Really British Thing That Being Even Remotely Emotional Was Absolutely Verboten.

The Name Bowie Just Appealed To Me When I Was Younger. I Was Into A Kind Of Heavy Philosophy Thing When I Was 16 Years Old, And I Wanted A Truism About Cutting Through The Lies And All That.

I Always Write Well In New York.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Nothing Prepared Me For Your Smile

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

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

There Were Lots Of Nightly Relationships. But The Reason You Don't Want To Make A Commitment Is Not That You're Such A Freewheeling, Adventurous Person, It's Because You're Scared Shitless That It Will Turn Out Like Your Mother And Father.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I Think 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.

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

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

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 Think It All Comes Back To Being Very Selfish As An Artist. I Mean, I Really Do Just Write And Record What Interests Me And I Do Approach The Stage Shows In Much The Same Way.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Fame Puts You There Where Things Are Hollow.

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.

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

Don’t You Love The Oxford Dictionary? When I First Read It, I Thought It Was A Really Really Long Poem About Everything.

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

I Heard The News Today, Oh Boy.

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.

Never Bored, So I'll Never Get Old

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

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

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."

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

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

No More Free Steps To Heaven.

It's Odd But Even When I Was A Kid, I Would Write About 'old And Other Times' As Though I Had A Lot Of Years Behind Me. Now I Do, So There Is A Difference In The Weight Of Memory.

Ground Control To Major Tom.

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.

Feeling So Gay, Feeling So Gay.

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.

[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.

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

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

Time Takes A Cigarette, Puts It In Your Mouth.

I Don't Think I Did Anything That My Contemporaries Didn't; It Was Just That I Was The Only One Who Talked About It. In The Sixties Anyone Who Had A Sense Of Style Seemed To Be Gay. I Wanted To Indentify With That.

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

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

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.

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

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

Ancient History

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!

There Have Been Times When I've Written Something And It Goes Out And It Comes Back In A Letter From Some Kid As To What They Think About It And I've Taken Their Analysis To Heart So Much That I Have Taken Up His Thing. Writing What My Audience Is Telling Me To Write.

I 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.

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