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"Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content."
"I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else."
"On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down.""
"I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company."
"Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of."
"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."
"We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful."
"You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him."
"Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence."
"Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating."
"If it works, it's out of date."
"I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave"
"My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself."
"It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory."
"A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that."
"I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free."
"I made a more mature approach to industrial music."
"I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown."
"I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last."
"The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it."