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" With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls. "

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

" As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. "

" All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image. "

" You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is. "

" 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'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan. "

" Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was never particularly fond of my voice. "

" 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. "

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

" I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. "

" 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. "

" Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. "