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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?

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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?

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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.

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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."

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

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.

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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.

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There's Just Some Dysfunctionalism With Artists. There Are Good Things And Bad Things About Being An Artist, And The Good Thing Is, Sometimes You Get An Inside Line On What's Really Happening. You Develop These Strange Antennae That Clue You In To What's Really Going On.

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

If It Works, It's Out Of Date.

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Put On Your Red Shoes, And Dance The Blues.

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Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am.

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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.

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Ground Control To Major Tom.

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

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

Time May Change Me, But I Can't Trace Time.

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When I Heard Little Richard, I Mean, It Just Set My World On Fire.

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

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

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Church On Time, Makes Me Party.

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

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

My Work Is Really The Accumulation Of These Different Moods That I've Had Throughout My Life And Where They've Taken Me. I Start Looking Back, And I Think, I've Actually Created A Life Out Of All This, Out Of These Changes Of Mood. They've Pushed Me Through All These Years, And I Seem To Have A Semblance Of A Life, And If I Look Very Carefully, I Can See Some Thematic Design To It. There's Some Continuity.

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!

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.

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.

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."

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

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

I 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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I'll Place My Love Beneath The Stars.

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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.

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One Day I Realized 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. That's When You Can Begin Really Looking For A Relationship. When You Can Appreciate The Whole Concept Of Giving To Someone, Not Just Taking.

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

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Sits Like A Man, But Smiles Like A Reptile.

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