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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.
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I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.
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When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.
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I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
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I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
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I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.
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You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted, I bought them for you Graceless lady, you know who I am You know I can't let you slide through my hands Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away.
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There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.
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I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.
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The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.