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"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."
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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."
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"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."
"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."
"I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood."
"What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S."
"Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S."
"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."
"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."
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