"I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human."
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"I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself."
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"Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master."
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"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."
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"Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out."
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"I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman."
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"You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is."
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"There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds."
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"Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold."
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"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
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"Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have."
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"The moment you know you know you know."
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"Look up here, I'm in heaven."
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"I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot."
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"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
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"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."
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"You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later."
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"The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead."
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"Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived."
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"I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around."
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