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I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.
You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.
You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.
Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?
I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.
I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...
I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.
People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.
I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?
I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.
I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.
We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.
Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].
I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.
I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.
There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.
I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.