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"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
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"I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult."
"It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band."
"I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different."
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
"People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song."
"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well."
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"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."
"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."
"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."
"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."
"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."
"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."
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