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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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" I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. "

" I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them. "

" I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan. "

" Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. "

" All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe. "

" Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing. "

" I've always tended to write songs prolifically. "

" I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. "

" When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30. "

" The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years. "

" 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. "

" I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side. "

" There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art. "

" 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 wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him. "

" I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation. "

" There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. "

" Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be. "

" I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. "

" 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. "

" Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling. "

" I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. "

" You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is. "

" Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. "

" Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. "

" Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. "

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

" The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. "

" 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, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write. "