There’s a taste in my mouth and it’s no taste at all.
Nothing prepared me for your smile.
I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It’s exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I’m not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.
Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.
Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
I’ve learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn’t seem such an alien place to be.
I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
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.
I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero.
Hitler was the first superstar.
Sweet head, give you sweet head.
I’d rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
I’m English. I can’t accept happiness that easily. There’s got to be a trick in there somewhere.
I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.
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.
If I wasn’t going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I’m much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street...
People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate – because, unfortunately, they’ve been programmed to do that.
I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through – creating a through point for a theatrical device.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 – for albums, anyway.
Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that’s coming out today, people are just, they’ve got it on as background music. It’s kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it’s very disposable.