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" I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places. "

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" I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. "

" I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. "

" I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. "

" 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. "

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

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

" GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other. "

" Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. "

" 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. "

" Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. "

" 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. "

" I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway. "

" I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. "

" 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. "