I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

I know that Annie Lennox has saved my life quite a few times, and I never forget that.

I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.

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.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.

I'm not a frustrated movie director: I'm not making games because I can't make movies.

The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer

I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear.

no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors.

It's weird for me when someone asks me to do a remix as Girl Talk and not use samples.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

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