I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
I’m an instant star, just add water.
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.
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.
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.
I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out...
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.
Trust nothing but your own experience.
Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.
It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, “Ah, I’ve kicked drugs,” but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.