'i was going through a period when drugs were taking the place of people. instead of people that i loved and had relationships with, i just took a load of bad drugs and used them to distort my opinion towards the people that i was actually seeing at the time. and so sex was just a hollow vacuous thing which was made full and three-dimensional by the fact that i was taking a huge amount of drugs.'
'i don't give a fuck if anyone thinks i've got my head down a toilet with a needle up my arse, as long as i make good records.'
'my hero? it's too easy to say prince or lynyrd skynyrd, so i've invented someone, the first animal pop star - laquoranda. it has the head of a stag, wearing a sari, it's long and thin and is a fantastical creature that comes to life through a computer, and is fed incredible music. i don't think people have thought the future of pop belongs to animals.'
'i just wish people would learn that, whether they like it or not, i'm gonna be a thorn in their flesh for a long time yet, so they might as well go out and get some calomine lotion.'
'i fancied being an athlete when i was a kid and then what happens? you get into cigarettes and girls and pop music, and you just end up a fat, bloated fool.'
' i don't exist. tap my head and it sounds like metal. i walk across the sun and i don't cast a shadow.'
'when you're eight years old, you're not boozing and injecting drugs into your eyeballs, are you?'
(on meeting david bowie...)
'he came in an he smelt beautiful. he smelt of chanel - but not poor person's chanel. he wafted in in a suit - it was just like jim'll fix it!'
take me back to
the beginning!!
