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"Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle too? Baby, I think someone down here has got it in for you!"
"I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones."
"I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything."
"My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit."
"We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!"
"I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism."
"Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
"For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing."
"I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in."
"Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say."
"Free speech not only lives, it rocks!"
"Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage."
"Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock."
"Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour."
"There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters."
"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it."
"I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it."
"The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock."
"Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest."
