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

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

" I'm very at ease, and I like 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'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! "

" I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. "

" 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. "

" Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do. "

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

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

" I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. "

" I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. "

" Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. "

" I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling. "

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

" What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people. "

" Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. "

" The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "