But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him. |
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image. |
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire. |
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. |
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. |
I'm always amazed that peole take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. |
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. |
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. |
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. |
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. |
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. |
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. |
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. |
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. |
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. |
Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together. |
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star. |
I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. |
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. |
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people. |