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    Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

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    All dancing is a replacement for sex.

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    A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

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    Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

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    Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

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    Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

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    Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

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    Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.

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    Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

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    As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

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    Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

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    Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

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    Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.

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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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    Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

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    Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

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    Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

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    Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

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    Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.

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    Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

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    For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

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    Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

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    Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

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    I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

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    I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

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    I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

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    I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

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    I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

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    I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

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    I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

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    I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.

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    I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.

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    I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

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    I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

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    I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

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    I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.

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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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    I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

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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 don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.

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    I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

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    I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

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    I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

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    I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

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    I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

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    I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

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    I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

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    I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

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    I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

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    I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.