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"The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever."
"I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents."
"People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer."
"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people."
"In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side."
"I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away."
"You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face."
"I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are."
"I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time."
"Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes]."
"We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time."
"I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water."
"Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell."
"My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity."
"Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did."
"I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway."
"When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end."
"It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll."
"I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly."
"He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear."