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"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together."
"I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride."
"I never really had much of an interest in fashion."
"I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals."
"I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else."
"In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff."
"I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion."
"I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with."
"And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that"
"I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years."
"I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets."
"Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American."
"No more free steps to heaven."
"If you want it, boys, get it here, thing."
"Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing."
"You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl."
"I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster."
"Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it."
"The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history."
"I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be."