- Nov 07, 2020
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- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn't in it for what he could get out of it. And all of a sudden, the pure young poet comes back... and I'm hanging out with the Rolling Stones.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020