"Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists."
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"King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists."
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"If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it."
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"One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils."
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"In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea."
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"Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting."
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"A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull."
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"With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable."
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"I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it."
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"When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification."
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"I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me."
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"I'm not going to do any more solo touring."
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"Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering."
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"Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no."
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"The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'"
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"I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music."
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"South Wales is a hub of aviation."
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"I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!"
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"My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try."
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"I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control."
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