“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.” My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.” “All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. “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.” “I’ve come to realizations that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.” “There's a terror in knowing what the world is about.” “I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture I was living in.” “Fame itself … doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.” I put them into interviews with me! Rather than be me - which must be incredibly boring to anyone - I’d take Ziggy in, or Aladdin Sane or The Thin White Duke. I continued designing characters with their own complete personalities and environments. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. “As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. "I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring."
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