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I don't cry easily.
Fraud is the daughter of greed.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
I grew up singing in a church choir.
I don't really listen to my old music.
I can't allow myself to censor myself.
I don't really experience much embarrassment.
It's always been my goal to have backing singers.
I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.
Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.
I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.
I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.
I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.
I'm a seriously flawed individual, but I guess everybody is.
I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.
What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.
Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.
I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.
I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.
I understand that there are a lot of things you cannot control in this world.
There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.
I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.
Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.
I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.
When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.
The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else.
I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.
You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.
I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.
The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.
I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.
Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.
I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'
I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him.
When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.
I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.
I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.
There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.
It's not like we wanted to talk about the fact that we're gay all the time, but the world has forced it to be an issue.