Quotes About Marc Bolan

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time when you'd say 'pop music' and conjure up images of the Sweet, or Marc Bolan. That, to me, can be avant-garde still.

Marc Bolan—name-dropped in the line "the DJ was playing some get-it-on rock 'n' roll"—had camped it up on Top of the Pops first, but he was cute, unthreatening; David and the Spiders were dangerous, a warning to lock up not only your daughters but also your sons.