"I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together."
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"I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his."
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"Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."
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"Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough."
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"I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device."
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"I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well."
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"I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance."
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"I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music."
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"She's a total bam bam."
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"Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable."
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"Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?"
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"I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar."
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"I can't keep my fingers out of any pies."
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"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."
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"I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua."
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"The media is either our salvation or our death."
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"Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud."
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"People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that."
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"I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it."
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"If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street."
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