"Donâ€™t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything."

-- David Bowie

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“Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity”
“I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.”

Source : Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.
“There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.”
“I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.”
“I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.”
“It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that's going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it's not even about religion. It's using that as canvas to get other messages across and that's what the album will be.”
“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

Source : Treatise on Style pt. 1 (1928)
“Love is not consolation, it is light.”

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