Quotes
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. .
I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke. (NME 07/06/1986)
I am capable of looking on the bright side – I just don’t do it very often. (Melody Maker 26/09/1987)
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.(Rock Sound 1993)
Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem. (Vox November 1990)
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong..(1984)
11 Responses to “Quotes”
I don’t want a Brit award. I don’t want a Brit award. [Do you feel more outside that world than ever then?] I think I’m extremely outside that world, yes. And it’s an honor, it really is. (BBC Radio 2, Feb 2008)
February 17th, 2009 at 9:42 am
“The long period of isolation I had meant a very long period of self-development. If you’re going to produce something of value, you have to think about what you’re doing — you can’t dive into it — and I gained a lot from being isolated. If I’d had the usual uncomplicated adolescence I wouldn’t be here now, writing. It’s odd how terrible things can be part of a learning process.”
February 19th, 2009 at 12:16 am
“I constantly spectate upon people who are entwined and frankly I’m looking upon souls in agony. I can’t think of one relationship in the world which has been harmonious. It just doesn’t happen.”
February 19th, 2009 at 12:17 am
“I don’t know if I even exist off stage.”
February 27th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
“I do think it’s possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.”
February 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
“Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.”
- Select, July 1991
February 27th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
“When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I’d like the words ‘Well, at least he tried’ engraved on my tombstone.”
- Melody Maker, 1987
February 27th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
“I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.”
- Select, July 1991
February 27th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
“I don’t recognise such terms as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual and I think it’s important that there’s someone in pop music who’s like that. These words do great damage, they confuse people and they make people feel unhappy so I want to do away with them.” – Star Hits, 1985
May 27th, 2009 at 4:02 am
“As I grew up I used to love stationery and pens and booklets and binders. I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.” – Star Hits, 1985
May 27th, 2009 at 4:02 am
“Don’t forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life”
December 6th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
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