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Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter.

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Ian Astbury
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 14
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Ian Robert Astbury
Depths
Christmas
Depth
Winter
Family
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I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.
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We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.
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I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, You've got to be joking, right?
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I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed.
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I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.
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The term rock has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!
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I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock it out and it's in my phone and I can transfer it to my computer and go into the studio and bring it up.
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Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.
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I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.
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I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.
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If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.
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What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?
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It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.
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I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.
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I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.
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I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.
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I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.
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You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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I'm much more for style and not trend-driven.
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