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" Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. "

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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. "

" I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation. "

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

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

" I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. "

" If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. "

" 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. "

" Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society. "

" There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means. "

" Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. "

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

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" I'm not very articulate. "

" Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. "

" 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 never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. "

" I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute. "

" Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. "