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"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."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."

"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
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"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."


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


"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."


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


"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."


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


"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'."


"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."
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