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I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

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

Turn and face the strange.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

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

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

Time
He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy

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'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

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.

She will be your living hell.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

It's always time to question what has become standard and established.

As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out ...

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

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

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

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.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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

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.

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

Turn and face the strange changes.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

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

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

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

I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

I'm a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I'm a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

Never bored, so I'll never get old

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

We could steal time, just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d'you say?

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.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one's emotional plane.

We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.

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

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.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

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.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man / just a mortal with potential of a superman / I'm living on.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

The moment you know you know you know.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.