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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

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Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

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You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.

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Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

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A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

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Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

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I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

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I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.

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I'm not really obsessed with death.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: April 21st, 1959

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