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Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.
If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.
I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?
I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
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