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"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."
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"I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good."

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