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" But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people. "
David Bowie
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" An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic. "
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" I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. "
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" The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. "
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" I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. "
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" I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. "
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" The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. "
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" I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing. "
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" I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him. "
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" Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself. "
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" If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer. "
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" Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. "
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" When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star. "
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" 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. "
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" When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30. "
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" I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there. "
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" Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do. "
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" I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan. "
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