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" 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. "

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" These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that. "

" And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. "

" Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together. "

" I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. "

" I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying. "

" I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool. "

" I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers. "

" I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. "

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

" I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. "

" 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. "

" A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star. "

" I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. "

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" With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line. "

" But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him. "

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" For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief. "

" Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. "

" Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. "