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

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" I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write. "

" 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. "

" I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. "

" I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. "

" As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn.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. "

" 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'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. "

" I've always tended to write songs prolifically. "

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

" 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. "

" Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity. "

" I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar. "

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

" For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief. "

" The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area. "

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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. "

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

" Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. "

" 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. "

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

" It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. "

" I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. "

" What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people. "

" 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 think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. "

" 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. "