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" However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums. "
David Bowie
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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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" I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. "
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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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" I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway. "
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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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" What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do. "
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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'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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" 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. "
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" From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! "
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" I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride. "
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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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" It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. "
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" The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at. "
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" As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. "
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" 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. "
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" GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other. "
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" I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. "
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" All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. "
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" 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. "
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" My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity. "
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" Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. "
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" I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. "
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" There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time. "
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