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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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"I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players."

"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together."

"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."

"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."

"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in."

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."

"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."
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