I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.