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" I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there. "

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" Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. "

" I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds. "

" I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. "

" I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the '60s as 'ideal' was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between. "

" 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 don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. "

" Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. "

" 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. "

" Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. "

" 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. "

" All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong. "

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

" 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. "

" Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. "

" The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. "

" Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky. "

" Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. "

" I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. "

" 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. "