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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
- Labels
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like gettin' old.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
- Better Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
- Fact
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
- Gutter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother answers all my fan mail.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sunglasses are like my guitar.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
- Drag
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020