"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."

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"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."

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"Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery."

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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."

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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."

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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."

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"Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us."

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People

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Music

"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."

Death

"And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over."

Control

"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."

Business

"And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem."

Drugs

"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die."

Death

"For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part."

Spiritual

"I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come."

Government

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Society