“It’s always time to question what has become standard and established.”
“I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.”
“I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all”
“Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time. ”
“Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
“For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.”
“Turn and face the strange.”
“Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist”
“There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about” ”
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
“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”
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out”
“All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker”
“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity”
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human”
“I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely”
“Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.”
“Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in”
“Don’t let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel”
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring”
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
“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.”
“All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it”
“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”
“I’m terribly intuitive—I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.”
“I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.
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“I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody’s talents.”
“Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings”
“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?”
“I really like to understand the society that I’m living in and how it works and functions and what people are thinking. You know. You can’t be a writer in any other way, I think. You have to sort of know where you are to write”
“I’ll paint you moments of gold, I’ll spin you Valentine evenings.”
“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”
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring”
“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
“No more free steps to heaven.”
“I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.”
“I don’t care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it’s what I shall continue to do.”
“Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming”
“We can be heroes just for one day”
“If it works, it’s out of date”
“People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.”
“I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody’s talents”
“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.”
“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.”
“I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them”
“You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is”
“Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age”
“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music”
“I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up”
“You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”
“Offstage I’m a robot. On stage, I achieve emotion. It’s probably why I prefer dressing up as Ziggy to being David”
“The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
“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”
“I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.”
“Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.”
“Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write.”
“Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.”
“I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously”
“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.”
“All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it”
“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”
“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”
“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.”
“Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.”
“The moment you know you know you know.”
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
“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”
“Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.”
“I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.”
“You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.”
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