I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp’s company.
I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I’d be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.
It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I’ve never bought into – with any artist. It’s just not a real thing.
I’m very shy. That’s probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I’m home.
The sun machine is coming down, and we’re gonna have a party.
I have to take total control myself. I can’t let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don’t want to get other people playing with what they think that I’m trying to do.
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
The only time that I’ve adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called “Outside” that I did with Brian Eno .
I’ll place my love beneath the stars.
Don’t let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.
My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can’t draw people together like one big huge family, people don’t want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll; this is genocide.
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 met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.