"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."
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"I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston."
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"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."
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"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."
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"It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence."
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"I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me."
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"I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move."
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"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it."
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"I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was."
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"I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me."
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"It's a perfect day for letting go."
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"In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated."
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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
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"B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view."
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"Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct."
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"I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on."
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"You don't really know a song until you play it live."
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"I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone."
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"I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else."
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"Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere."
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