"Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain."
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"The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually."
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"I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar."
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"There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely."
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"You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!"
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"I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it."
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"Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'"
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"I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones."
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"I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America."
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"I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics."
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"Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it."
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"Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist"
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"I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere."
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"Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it."
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"I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang."
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"The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe."
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"A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all."
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"Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!"
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"I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it."
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"Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing."
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