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" Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life. "
Al Jourgensen
Art
Going
Life
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" Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. "
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" Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy. "
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" Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there. "
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" If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean? "
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Tree
" I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope. "
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Recluse
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" I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago. "
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" I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day. "
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" Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight. "
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" Nothing exceeds like excess. "
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Nothing
Excess
" When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow. "
Al Jourgensen
Getting Old
Selling
Listen
" I never read comic books as a kid. "
Al Jourgensen
Kid
Comic
Books
" I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you. "
Al Jourgensen
Go
Just
Tell
" I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it. "
Al Jourgensen
Living
Life
Reality
" There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. "
Al Jourgensen
Society
New York
Art
" This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career. "
Al Jourgensen
Thing
Got
Way
" This administration affects the everyday life of the common person. "
Al Jourgensen
Life
Person
Everyday Life
" You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot. "
Al Jourgensen
Me
Person
School
" I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena. "
Al Jourgensen
Still
Club
Five
" I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer. "
Al Jourgensen
Rat
Studio
Producer
" I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke. "
Al Jourgensen
Past
You
Smoke
" Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do. "
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Think
Society
" Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs. "
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Time
Enjoy
" It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records. "
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You
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" I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots. "
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Good