"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."
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"I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write."
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"Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place."
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"For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do."
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"I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league."
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"I'm drawn between the light and dark."
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"It's only forever... Not long at all."
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"I'll place my love beneath the stars."
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"There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father."
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"She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind."
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"It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives."
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"This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!"
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"One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer ... He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right."
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"I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character."
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"We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?"
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"I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much."
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"I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived."
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"Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people."
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"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
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"I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear."
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