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" I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. "
David Bowie
Image
Woman
Overweight
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" 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. "
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" Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. "
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" I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last. "
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" Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant. "
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Seat
" 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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People
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" 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. "
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Performance
Events
" 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. "
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" Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. "
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" Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age. "
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" What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do. "
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Difference
Work
" 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. "
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Kind
Age
Music
" 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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Creating
Think
" I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar. "
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Agree
Say
Much
" When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding. "
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Time
Down
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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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Feelings
You
Way
" I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. 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. "
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Mouth
Music
Past
" 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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Changes
Experience
Happy
" GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other. "
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Arcade
Two
" Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. "
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Nearly
Piano
Work
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Place
" 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. "
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Experience
" It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. "
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Situation
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" On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. "
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Demons
You
Inside
" I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers. "
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Rock
" 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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Born
London
" 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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" My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. "
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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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