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"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
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"For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator's precision."
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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."
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"I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I."
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"Even freedom needs some rules to keep it from being complete chaos."
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"Things refuse to be mismanaged for long."
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"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."
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"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
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"I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors."
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"Think about Isis, Jaz repeated. "And Sadie, thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins."
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"I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band."
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"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work."
Work
"In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it."
Father
"I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition."
Being
"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."
Art
"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights."
Experience
"But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find."
Movies
"Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous."
First
"I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly."
Music
"In America everything's about who's number one today."
America
"The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
Music
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