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"I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that."
"I'm afraid of Americans."
"[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look."
"I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level."
"I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium."
"Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie."
"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."
"Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes."
"My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class."
"What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living."
"I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well."
"People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned."
"There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all."
"I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience."
"When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to be careful about the prayers that we chose and the music I wrote because I didn't want to offend either side."
"I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing."
"I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done."
"[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz."
"Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use."
"Feeling so gay, feeling so gay."