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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."
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"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."

"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

"I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary."

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
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