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"I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band."
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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."
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"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."
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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."
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"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."
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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."
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"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."
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"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."
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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"
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"Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion."
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"I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best."
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"Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything."
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"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."
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"I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky."
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"Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point."
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"I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image."
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"You need to write on your own and produce your own life."
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"I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!"
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"I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band."
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