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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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" I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly. "

" I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left? "

" Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. "

" But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. "

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

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" To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me. "