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" 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. "
David Bowie
Best
You
Work
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" I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool. "
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" 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. "
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" The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at. "
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" 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? "
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You
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" 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. "
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" I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original. "
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Statement
Original
" Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky. "
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Never
Funky
Think
" I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. "
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Eccentricity
Find
Only
" I'm not very articulate. "
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Articulate
" 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. "
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Music
" I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. "
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Think
Life
Writing
" 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. "
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Chaos
Feeling
Ideal
" I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. "
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Up
Rate
Best
" Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. "
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Write
Want
You
" 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. "
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Baby
Born
London
" I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. "
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Life
" 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. "
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Go
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" Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' "
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Spiritual
Life
Me
" A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. "
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Body
Influence
Song
" 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. "
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Changes
Experience
Happy
" 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. "
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Down
Funny
" 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. "
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I Am
Left
Me
" What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do. "
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Make A Difference
Difference
Work
" 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. "
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Through
Behind
Number
" 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. "
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Amazing
I Am
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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. "
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Away
Guess
" I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. "
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Think
Always
Delight
" 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. "
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Me
Away
Run
" 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. "
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Want
I Wish
Myself