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I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Pop music has progressed.

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

The Collier Street clouds lowered, and How soon is now? resigned itself to B-side status.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

A new truth; that a woman can be just as cruel and dehumanized as a man, and that all safety is an illusion.

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes,
he never quite goes this low.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

On the day that your mentality
Decides to catch up with your biology,
Come 'round

Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

Where, I wonder, can such stylishly fitted jeans be found?

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

For there are better sides to life
And I should know because I've seen them
But not very often

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

The heart has a heart of its own.

Why don't you find out for yourself?
Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living - here my voice in your head and think of me kindly

There's no such thing as good news in America.

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

You made me feel less alone;
you made me feel not quite so
deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and no singing artist seems to be in possession of the complete bundle.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

I honestly begin every single day with the intention of avoiding people.

Music, you see, is the key.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.

I died a thousand deaths of sorrow and lay down in the woods to die

Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.

The US goverment proudly boasted Zero Tolerance and implemented the scheme with zero intelligence

Could things get any worse? Why, yes, little one. Be patient.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!

I can see through the human heart, and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

Life is a pigsty.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

And if you ever need self-validation,
Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.

There are more than enough
to fight and oppose;
why waste good time
fighting the people you like?

and the lonely traveler is engulfed.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

Nothing, I have decided, could waste precious life more than trigonometry and logarithms.

It begins in the heart ... and it hurts when it's true.
It only hurts because it's true.

David Bowie is detached from everything, yet open to everything; stripped of the notion that both art and life are impossible.

I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

I'd love to...but only with you.

Chrissie could make people laugh at the funeral of triplets.

I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil. Such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you -have I failed?

I would never again assume that any figure of authority automatically held any intellectual distinction. I am unafraid.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

The music played, always pointing to the light, to the way out, or the way in, to individualism,

America is not the world.

Hazel wears a beret, is 1940s skinny, speaks in a full whisper, drinks whiskey, smokes impressively, and holds the eye.

People don't like me.

You bang the door behind you and you may be gone forever, or never seen again, oh untraceable you.

The more you ignore me, the closer I get; you're wasting your time.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

The arts translate life into film and literature and music and repeat a deadly poison: the monotonous in life must be protected at all costs.

It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm

As if a person's greatness need never be pointed out, for it is there, anyway, in the silent being.

They were postmodernism up the pole.

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

Some girls are bigger than others.

Isn't sex the one and only reason why all of us are actually alive?

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

I am very serious about my baby.

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour?

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Cats will be cats.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why ... this is why I like you.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

No heavenly choirs.
None for me and none for you.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.