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"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."
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"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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