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

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" When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire. "

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

" 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 was never particularly fond of my voice. "

" The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. "

" I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. "

" I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. "

" All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe. "

" I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. "

" I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever. "

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

" My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong. "

" What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do. "

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" It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. "

" Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself. "

" As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left? "

" 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. "

" But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "