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In the next life what would m...

In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.

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When I came home my parents w...

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.

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Something I practice everyday...

Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.

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I don't ever think of myself ...

I don't ever think of myself as a dark person or a ruined person in any way. I just feel happy to be alive, and to be able to love.

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At some point in your life, i...

At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either at camp, either at a friend's house, at a birthday or Christmas or bar mitzvah, you end up with a cuatro. It's like a must.

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I guess I don't want everyone...

I guess I don't want everyone to know what I'm doing every second.

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Leigh Bowery is a legend. Eve...

Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.

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Let's take fashion seriously,...

Let's take fashion seriously, but not ourselves so seriously. Or reverse that, maybe don't take fashion so seriously, but take yourself seriously. Actually, don't take yourself seriously, that's for sure. So, yeah, take fashion seriously, just not yourself.

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I can't imagine anyone approa...

I can't imagine anyone approaching art without the joy of experimentation. The joy of it is inherent... and that is how you flow with the reality of change.

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The first paid show was in Lo...

The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?

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I've been doing visual stuff ...

I've been doing visual stuff for as long as I've been making records; in fact, for longer.

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I remember when I was a kid I...

I remember when I was a kid I thought I could either be an athletic water drinker, like an Olympic-level water drinker, or I could invent Windex. Which I thought was really smart, because it already existed.

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As anthropomorphic and surrea...

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

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I always wanted to move to Ne...

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

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We live in an age where many ...

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

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There is something to mystery...

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

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People want to be successful,...

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

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Now everybody knows about thi...

Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone and needed it. It's what helps me get through these times. It's just between me and music, and now it's been shared with the world.

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I get to swim in the ocean ev...

I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

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The best New York in the worl...

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....