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" These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that. "

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Street

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

" I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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Whatever

" I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. "

" I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers. "

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

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

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

" I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents. "

" I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. "

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