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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.
We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.
There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.
For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.
I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.
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 don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.
I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.
The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.
I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.
With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
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.
Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
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.
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 makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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.
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.
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'.
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 everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.
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.
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'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.
For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.
I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
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'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.
I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.
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.
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?
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.
And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that
The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.
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.
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.