"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."

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"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."

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"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."

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