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"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
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"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."

"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."

"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."

"I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet."

"In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm."
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"Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame."


"Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry."


"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."


"No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore."


"It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen."


"It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation."


"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."


"Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music."


"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
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