“Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing, they let go like no one else.”
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“Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing, they let go like no one else.”
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“We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.”
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“It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces.”
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“I like to rattle cages.”
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“We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen to the rhythms within ourselves and take the...”
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“I didn't have many role models or interesting women to get stirred up by until Yoko Ono came along.”
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“I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.”
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“If my 18-year-old daughter asked me whether she should lead a truth-hunting, artistic, uncompromising life as I have done, I'd say no, don't do it. It's a difficult and lonely path for a wom...”
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“With the second book, I didn't have an ideal reader in mind, as it developed quite out of my control, this detective novel of why am I so full of anger, why did I pick up a guitar when I was...”
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“Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look for happiness.'”
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