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"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."

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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

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"I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is."

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"Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America."

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"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."

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"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

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"For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us."

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"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."

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"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."

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"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."

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"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."

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"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."

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