Musician

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

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.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Ketenaran itu sendiri ... tidak benar-benar memberi Anda apapun selain tempat duduk yang bagus di restoran.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

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.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

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.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

Saya tidak tahu kemana saya akan pergi dari sini, tetapi saya berjanji itu tidak akan membosankan.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

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.

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.

Saya tidak pernah menyukai suara saya.

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.