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" 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. "

David Bowie

Chaos

Feeling

Ideal

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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 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. "

" That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. "

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Hell

Short

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

" 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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Early

Coffee

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Very

Articulate

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" Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' "

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Spiritual

Life

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Theatre

Music

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Seen

Mean

" 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. "