I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.
The end of the play is kind of the beginning.
I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.