However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
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Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a co... TRACY CHAPMAN There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I'... DEREK JACOBI I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic p... EDGAR WINTER As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do wa... TIBOR FISCHER It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c... VAL KILMER Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread o... DAVE CAREY As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my ... DAVID FRIEDMAN When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it'... MARILYN MANSON It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemica... MCG I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no... MICK ROCK Any fundamental reform is a long shot, but there is no denying that the momentum behind the fair tax... BILL AHERN Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a Da... VIN DIESEL I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in ev... ACTION BRONSON Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what yo... MARC BOLAN Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. IMAN That?s the centerpiece of the concert. The concept of doing a heritage-based theme began there. BILL STRAUB This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name ... FKA TWIGS With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ... J. TILLMAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this... GEORGE EZRA If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Ma... MARTIN O'MALLEY More and more, there are things in my life that I find hard to say. Like, 'David Bowie and Lorde... TILDA SWINTON There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it... MAGGIE SMITH Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there... JERRY LEE LEWIS Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. E. L. DOCTOROW People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of... ALAN GREENSPAN There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int... ISAAC ASIMOV There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int... ISAAC ASIMOV I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive acti... DASH MIHOK I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the ... MARTIN LANDAU I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one... E.M. FORSTER As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it... BEN LOVETT I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no re... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of ... GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow m... BILLY CURRINGTON Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... AURORA The number of proof-of-concept viruses is increasing but that's not to say there has been an increas... DAVID WOOD I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ... MARTHA PLIMPTON I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no d... AMANDA CREW Early on, I was into David Bowie. Then someone in the band suggested I try a Bryan Ferry type of thi... ROBIN ZANDER A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the... SANDRA TSING LOH 'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them th... FLANNERY O'CONNOR When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences,... GERALD CLAYTON There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.... CESAR MILLAN In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's ... SCOTT WEILAND There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But h... LARRY KRAMER Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette p... KRIST NOVOSELIC Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of under... AARON RUELL Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w... YODA It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what li... ANTONY BEEVOR There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in... JAMES AVERY That is the theme, and the thread that will permeate itself through realizing this dream. HANK GOBIN My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without vio... NEYMAR It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad ... WINONA RYDER I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan... RONNIE WOOD It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ... DOUGLAS ADAMS For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is ther... DAVID ROCKWELL It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used... RONNIE WOOD There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me.... ALEXANDER MCQUEEN When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life ... JOHN LEGEND There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,... FRANCIS BACON Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as t... ROGER PENROSE Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour. CECELIA AHERN Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t... PETER TOWNSEND If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. Th... KATE THOMPSON Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel qu... DANICA PATRICK When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things ... ANI DIFRANCO There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we... JEFF GREENFIELD For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no... WALTER LORD Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. MOBY As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at le... AMBETH R. OCAMPO If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong... DOROTHY ALLISON There is a problem with the perceiving of this as targeting law enforcement. But it truly is a desir... CHERYL TALLEY David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me. LEONA LEWIS There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a dir... LOGAN LERMAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I... PIERCE BROSNAN In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think. DEB CALETTI There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and... MARY J. BLIGE When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba... RANDY BACHMAN
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