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"I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
"A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture."
"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."
"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."
"What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer."
"I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes."
"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."
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