"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."
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"I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love."
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"There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization."
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"Fame puts you there where things are hollow."
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"I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships."
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"I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings."
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"I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero"
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"It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here."
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"Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky."
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"It would be positively boring if minds were in tune."
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"Never bored, so I'll never get old"
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"A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times."
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"Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground."
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"There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed."
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"People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything."
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"I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist."
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"I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like."
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"When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band."
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"If we could be heroes, if just for one day."
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"I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in."
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