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"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."
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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."


"My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed."


"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"


"The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music."


"When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."


"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is."


"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."


"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."


"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."
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