For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.
DAVID BOWIEI could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn’t talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.
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As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
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I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It’s such an expressive form of popular music, it’s so real, it’s got so much life: it’s the most vital music in the world.
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If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
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There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.
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Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
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It was fun to be clever.
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You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
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I’ll place my love beneath the stars.
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I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.
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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
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If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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