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1. I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
2. Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive. Everyone thinks I should be so happy, fucking all these chicks, and all the drugs and being a star. But I hurt. And I'm lonely.
3. What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
4. I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
5. Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
6. I stare at myself in the mirror and I think: "Wow, I'm really great-looking."… I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
7. If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
8. Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
9. She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
10. Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
11. I feel like God peed on all my enemies. For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little - a movie song here or a TV ad there.
12. You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.
13. Everybody's a little more worldly now, and there's more exposure to things. When I made Fun House, back in 1970, nobody wanted to interview me. It was wonderful. I was like one of those little white things you find living under rocks, that every once in a while people pull up by mistake and go: "aagh!" But now everybody has a video camera, and that may have changed the nature of "the message from below," as it were.
14. This town is diverse as shit. I like it here a lot. (on Miami)
15. Yeah, she's heard the war stories ... I tell it all to her. I think one has to, because one wants to know somebody, and one wants to feel that somebody knows one. I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising. (On discussing his past escapades with his girlfriend.)
16. As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful, even the broken-glass thing. Although, you know, there's an archetypal element to that anyway. ... It's about the blood ... The Christians used that riff with Christ. What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen. And when they asked him: "Why are you hanging out with prostitutes and fishermen?" he said: "Because they need me." What a line, you know? But what your martial society really wants is blood. We need some blood. We need some suffering. Like, the individual must suffer for the good of the whole. I toy around with that. Early on, I wasn't looking at Jesus Christ, saying to myself: "What an angle." I wasn't trying to be Christ-y. But, after all, on one level, this is showbiz. (On his stage performances, including acts where he would crawl and roll on broken glass)
17. You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know? (On his performances)
18. Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
19. This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.
20. I used to catch myself - maybe we'd be having dinner with the future king of Spain, and I'd be grumpy, like, "What are we doing here, hanging out with these swells?" And then, right away, I'd realize, "Dude, you're jealous." It got very hard on a certain level. He was a person of affairs, in the worldly sense, with a lot of choices laid out on his smorgasbord. I had no choices whatsoever. I was a pariah. But a very fortunate one, in that he saw something worthwhile in me, and he made me two terrific records. He gave me the break I needed to continue living life. He is my benefactor. (On his relations with David Bowie)
21. I've never had any sort of macho revulsion of fags, but Bowie and I - never, never, never, never. Everybody would think that, but I never saw him be that way anyway. I'll tell you this. That guy got more p-u-s-s-y. I couldn't believe it. Talk about a bitch magnet. Damn! Actresses, heiresses, waitresses, skateresses. And me? I was just left holding my dick most of the time. I had this short haircut, and I looked like a duck. But I got lucky sometimes. I got a good song out of a girl I was knocking off at the time, and it became "China Girl." (On rumours that he and Bowie were lovers.)
22. I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am. So I'll just sit and wait for somebody to say: "Aren't you ... ?" and then go from there.
23. Have you ever noticed that a small creature, like a mouse or a mole, when faced with danger, they just stop? I've had big, long periods in my life when I was a lot like that. I just froze. It was not fun, but it was what I thought I had to do. And that's how I lived, pretty much, at one time. I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. The only thing missing from my life right now is what I've got, and it's peace. I have more than I ever had ... and not as much as I would like.
24. You write about things of importance to you. And it's gotta be for real. Do I think about my dick? Oh, yeah, all the time. If I think about it all the time, I got a right to sing about it. If I wasn't thinking about it all the time but thought: "It's time to write a rock song, I'd better mention my dick," then I wouldn't even be able to say "dick" right. Besides, it's an ecological line. It's not: "My dick is all bad, motherfucker, wickety wackety woo." It's nature-oriented. (Pauses, looking serious, then laughs) It is!
25. I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
26. I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.
27. They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
28. I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.
29. Nihilism is best done by professionals.
30. That band could kill any band at the time and frankly can just kill any bands that built on this work since…just eat any of those poodles (on his band The Stooges.)
31. I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets.
32. The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is: "We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too". (on modern music)
33. Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.(1977)
34. I don't know Johnny Rotten, but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.
35. The industrialism in Detroit...what I heard walking around...boom boom bah - 10 cars...boom boom bah - 20 cars...I get a lot of my influence from the electric shaver…
(When asked by Dinah Shore what influenced his music)
36. I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else’s car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me.
37. What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.
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1. I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.
2. People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
3. I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
4. Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
5. When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.
6. I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
7. I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
8. Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
9. I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
10. People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
11. Always my collections are made of different influences.
12. It is beautiful to be what you are.
13. My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.
14. If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.
15. The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
16. In France, history is paralyzing.
17. The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
18. I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
19. My eccentricity became direction.
20. I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
21. I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
22. Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
23. Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
24. Fashion is not art. Never.
25. My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.
26. People are so codified - it's sad.
27. There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.
28. When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
29. I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!
30. When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
31. I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
32. I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.
33. I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
34. You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.
35. I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
36. Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
37. I will stay in my bed! (On celebrating his upcoming 60th birthday)
38. That name came from people who did not know what to say about me. People were interested in me and they didn’t know what to call it. So they said: "Enfant terrible." (On his famous "enfant terrible" nickname)
39. What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination. (on stereotypes)
40. It wasn’t like an old French house. It wasn’t that old prostitution of doing everything for money; it was doing things for the love of the idea. He taught me to be truly free-spirited. (on Pierre Cardin)
41. (I put her) in the cone bra a long time before Madonna. (On dressing his teddy bear as a child)
42. I said later, if she hadn’t asked me to make clothes for her, I would’ve killed the one that she did ask. (on Madonna)
43. I think that the collection is very much sophisticated and very woman. It's elegant, not at all sportswear. But it's very much like daytime, but elegant.
44. It's very free. My cubes are in crepe and in fabrics that move.
45. (It's) like a Parisian punkette. You know, originally the punk (were) English so it's the French version of punk which means a kind of bourgeois. A little chic, elegant and (some kind of) accident (can) happen.
46. (But) for women, you put it on as a dress, so you have to put your leg in it. That's it, ... And the zipper on the back and that's it.
47. I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.
48. We have to celebrate the end of the millennium with brio.
49. If there is somebody we're interested in we might place a phone call and send them a look book.
50. Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!
51. I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.
52. Anna Wintour is a lot more monstrous than she is described!
53. Designers are to be in connection with what’s happening with the movement of society.
54. I wish I had invented the best accessory in the world - the condom.
55. Phtt! "enfant terrible"…you know, it’s like grey hair…I’m a little bit fatty…
56. He’s not like the old type of let’s say, maybe like a drag queen or a transvestite, not at all. He’s Andrej! (On the model Andrej Pejic)What do you think of Jean Paul Gaultier's quotes?
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George Clooney, born on May 6, 1961, is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received three Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award.
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Actor - Film
1987 "Return to Horror High" as Oliver
1987 "Grizzly II: The Predator" Uncredited
1987 "Combat Academy" as Maj. Biff Woods
1988 "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" as Matt Stevens
1990 "Red Surf Remar"
1992 "Unbecoming Age" as Mac
1993 "The Harvest" as Lip-synching transvestite
1996 " From Dusk till Dawn" as Seth Gecko
1996 "One Fine Day" as Jack Taylor
1997 "The Peacemaker" as Thomas Devoe
1997 "Batman & Robin" as Bruce Wayne/Batman
1998 "The Thin Red Line" as Captain Bosche
1998 "Out of Sight" as Jack Foley
1998 "Waiting for Woody" as Himself Short
1999 "Three Kings" as Major Archie Gates
1999 "The Book That Wrote Itself" as Himself
1999 "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" as Doctor Gouache (voice)
2000 "The Perfect Storm" as Billy "Skip" Tyne
2000 "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" as Ulysses Everett McGill
2001 "Ocean's Eleven" as Danny Ocean
2001 "Spy Kids" as Devlin
2002 "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" as CIA Officer Jim Byrd Also director
2002 "Solaris" as Chris Kelvin
2002 "Welcome to Collinwood" as Jerzy
2002 "Starbuck Holger Meins" Documentary
2003 "Intolerable Cruelty" as Miles Massey
2003 " Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" as Devlin
2004 "Ocean's Twelve" as Danny Ocean
2005 "Good Night, and Good Luck" as Fred Friendly Also co-writer, director
2005 "Syriana" as Bob Barnes
2006 "The Good German" as Jake Geismar
2007 "Michael Clayton" as Michael Clayton
2007 "Darfur Now" as Himself
2007 "Ocean's Thirteen" as Danny Ocean
2008 "Leatherheads" as Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly Also co-writer, director
2008 "Burn After Reading" as Harry Pfarrer
2009 "Fantastic Mr. Fox" as Mr. Fox (voice)
2009 "The Men Who Stare at Goats" as Lyn Cassady
2009 "Up in the Air " as Ryan Bingham
2010 "The American" as Jack
2011 "The Ides of March" as Governor Mike Morris Also co-writer, director
2011 "The Descendants" as Matt King 
2013 "Gravity as Matt Kowalsky Post-production
Actor - Television
1984 "E/R" as Mark "Ace" Kolmar
1984 "Riptide" as Lenny Colwell (a kidnapper) 1 episode: "Where the Girls Are"
1985 "Street Hawk" as Kevin Stark 1 episode: "A Second Self"
1985 "The Facts of Life " as George Burnett
1987 "Murder, She Wrote" as Kip Howard 1 episode: "No Laughing Murder"
1987 "The Golden Girls" as Detective Bobby Hopkins 1 episode: "To Catch a Neighbor"
1988 "Roseanne" as Booker Brooks 11 episodes
1992 "Bodies of Evidence" as Ryan Walker 16 episodes; co-main role
1993 "Sisters" as Detective James Falconer
1994 "ER" as Dr. Doug Ross 107 episodes
1995 "Friends" as Dr. Michael Mitchell Episode: "The One with Two Parts, Part Two"
1997 "Full-Tilt Boogie" as Himself Documentary
1997 "South Park" as Sparky the Dog (voice) 1 episode: "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"
2000 "Fail Safe" as Col. Jack Grady
Actor - Theatre
2012 8 as David Boies
Director
2002 "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"
2005 "Good Night, and Good Luck"
2005 "Unscripted" 5 episodes
2008 "Leatherheads"
2011 "The Ides of March"
Producer
1999 "Kilroy" TV; also writer
2000 "Fail Safe" Executive producer
2001 "Rock Star" Executive producer
2002 "Insomnia" Executive producer
2002 "Welcome to Collinwood" Executive producer
2002 "Far from Heaven" Executive producer
2003 "K Street" Executive producer, 10 episodes
2004 "Criminal"
2005 "The Jacket"
2005 "Unscripted" 10 episodes
2005 "The Big Empty" Executive producer
2005 "Syriana" Executive producer
2005 "Rumor Has It..." Executive producer
2006 "A Scanner Darkly" Executive producer
2006 "Pu-239" Executive producer
2007 "Michael Clayton" Executive producer
2007 "Sand and Sorrow" Executive producer;documentary
2007 "Wind Chill" Executive producer
2008 "Leatherheads"
2009 "The Informant!" Executive producer
2009 "Playground" Executive producer
2009 "The Men Who Stare at Goats"
2010 "Hope for Haiti Now"
2011 "The Ides of March"
2012 "Argo"
Writer
2005 "Good Night, and Good Luck"
2008 "Leatherheads"
2011 "The Ides of March"
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1. It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
2. I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
3. Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
4. I'm always amazed that peole take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
5. The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
6. I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
7. I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
8. Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
9. I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
14. But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
15. However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
16. I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
17. I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
18. I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
19. And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
20. But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
21. I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
22. I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
23. I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
24. I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
25. I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
26. Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
27. Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
28. Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
29. Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
30. There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
31. 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.
32. Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
33. When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
34. I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
35. It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
36. 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.
37. I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
38. Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
39. Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
40. I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
41. I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
42. Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
43. When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
44. Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
45. I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
46. Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: "Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months."
47. I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.
48. I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
49. That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
50. Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
51. Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
52. There's a good television program called "Disco 2." It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.
53. There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
54. I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.
55. I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
56. What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
57. The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
58. The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
59. Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
60. I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
61. As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
62. I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.63. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
64. I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought: "Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.
65. And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations.They're quite aware of what they're going through.
66. Turn and face the strange.
67. Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
68. If it works, it's out of date.
69. There's a terror in knowing what the world is about.
70. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on... Check ignition and may God's love be with you...
71. Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
72. No more free steps to heaven.
73. Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.
74. There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.
75. Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
76. Everywhere I looked, demons of the future (were) on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
77. Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
78. Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...
79. I'm an instant atar. Just add Ester and stir.
80. And when the clothes are strewn, don't be afraid of the room, touch the fullness of her breast, feel the love of her caress...she will be your living end.81. You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race.
82. Is it nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?
83. I told them I'd only do it if they got Arcade Fire to perform. They're fantastic.
84. I wanted to create an environment where not just my fans but all music lovers could be a part of the same community.85. I gave up smoking six months before I had the heart attack - so that was worth it, wasn't it! I started to give up when my daughter was born because I wouldn't smoke in the house with her there so I had to go outside. It's bloody cold in winter in New York, so I just quit.
86. I once asked (John) Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said "it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on".
87. I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and said: "Hey, Lets dance!" I hate dancing. God, it's stupid.
88. It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me. Fun, too. (in 1976 interview with Playboy)
89. Any list of advice I have to offer to a musician always ends with: "If it itches, go and see a doctor." (on getting an honorary degree from Boston's Berklee College of Music)
90. I know about Kylie (Kylie Minogue) and Robbie (Robbie Williams) and "Pop Idol" and stuff like that. You can't get away from that when you hit the (British) shore, so I know all about the cruise ship entertainment aspect of British pop.
91. Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.
92. The few times I saw him perform in London at UFO and the Marquee clubs during the '60s will forever be etched in my mind. He was so charismatic and such a startlingly original songwriter. Also, along with Anthony Newley, he was the first guy I'd heard to sing pop or rock with a British accent. His impact on my thinking was enormous. A major regret is that I never got to know him. A diamond indeed. (On Syd Barrett)
93. You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
94. However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
95. I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
96. Fab. But, you know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. (on being 50)
97. When Brian and I came back together this time, we found that we'd gone through very similar psychological states during the course of the '80s.
98. I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
99. When I performed I was thinking, you all look like you should be seeing Phil Collins. Then I thought, hang on, I sound like Phil Collins. So I've changed. I'm not comfortable with the mainstream thing. (On his pop sound during the 1980s)
100. What is very enlightening for me right now is that I sense that I'm arriving at a place of peace with my writing that I've never experienced before.
101. Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
102. Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
103. Asked whether he thinks he is a good actor: "I took you in, didn't I? I rest my make-up case.
104. I have nothing to say about the new album. Can I go now? (during an interview about his new album in 1999)
105. I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians. (from 1983)
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